Vibe Coding
Pattern: Agent Companion Apps Emerge as Orchestration Layer Above IDEs
VS Code's new Agent Companion App joins Claude Code's agent teams and Cursor's background agents in establishing a new architectural pattern: a persistent orchestration layer that sits above the IDE, managing parallel agent sessions across worktrees, monitoring progress, and surfacing diffs for review. The IDE becomes one execution environment among many, while the companion app becomes the developer's primary interface for delegating and supervising work.
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