all those things wouldnt be done in an ide anyways

fine, I need an "integrated agent collaboration environment" instead of an integrated development environment. I find value in them all being in the same app because it brings everything I need into a single work flow.

Have you tried Zed?

Kind of. I tried it on a really small project, but I've been reading about it and have seen a few demos and reviews. It is still too 'code focused' for me.

For context, I am a product manager at a big tech company who has been building side apps for fun (and profit) since the days of Palm OS. I am effectively an SDE1 with 20 years experience, who has deep expertise in a lot of obsolete tech (C, Objective-C, Perl) and some exposure to modern stuff (TS, React, Rust, Swift).

In the past year, I've been able to personally drive projects several orders of magnitude than what I could ever build myself. I'm not asking Fable to 1-shot grand theft auto, I am creating steering files, running adversarial reviews, prototyping, automating testing, and building my projects the slow way. Still, I don't write any code, just requirements and prompts and generate the rest. Our internal development teams at my company have arrived at a very similar process (much more sophisticated) by investing heavily in steering files that encode development approaches, harness and other mechanisms to automate best practices. It is getting to the point where our development process are becoming really similar, and many of the SDE do not need to review code for the majority of their deliverables, instead they are working on the framework (harnesses) and auditing. (Of course they still do look at the code because the love coding. But they usually don't need to)

vim buffers also work very well with agents

you must be living under a rock, mutable user data like usage habits is being collected at increasing levels

I think GP is about PII rather than "mutable user data".

you can install binaries with npm too, not just limited to js

one click deployments are stupid and useless. you should have the agent walk you through building the deployment scripts and process.

gpt 5.4. mini no thinking is about as as fast

the open source spotify is pretty much napster 2.0

About the same as Spotify with ads, but without the ads.

well done you realised no one knows what they are talking about

cors stops the browser from reading the response but the request still gets processed by the server

Browsers use OPTIONS preflight request to do CORS validation. Servers shouldn't do too much work in an OPTIONS request. Should be a simple if statement, no db operations, which is usually where the bottleneck is.