Agentic Development Environments Emerge to Orchestrate 5 Coding Agents as IDEs Fade
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Updated · InfoWorld · Jul 8
Agentic Development Environments Emerge to Orchestrate 5 Coding Agents as IDEs Fade
3 articles · Updated · InfoWorld · Jul 8
Summary
ADEs are taking shape as a new software tool layer built to coordinate multiple coding agents across branches and tasks inside one repository, shifting developers from writing code to directing agent fleets.
Git worktrees underpin that shift by letting several branches of the same repository run in separate directories, making parallel work on multiple tickets practical without cloning full repos.
Managing 4 or 5 console windows and worktrees manually has become the bottleneck, and ADEs aim to automate opening, running and closing those environments for each agent.
The change reflects a broader move away from the IDE model—built for one human coder—toward agentic development systems such as GitKraken's Kepler and JetBrains' new team AI platform.