Developers Shift From IDEs To Agent Control Planes

Industry commentary argues that developer workflows are shifting from IDE-centric editing to agent orchestration, as OpenAI and Anthropic recently released desktop agent control-plane tools such as OpenAI's Codex macOS app and Anthropic's Claude Cowork mode. These control planes coordinate tasks, tools, permissions, context, and review, enabling parallel, long-running agents to read and modify files and reposition IDEs as review surfaces.