The IDE Is Not Dead, It Is Where the Agentic Stack Begins

TLDR: Every few months somebody declares the IDE obsolete. Kilo pushes back and argues the editor is still the core of the agentic coding loop, and that the interesting work is making the IDE, the CLI, the browser, and cloud agents behave like one platform. The piece also doubles as a roadmap pitch: parallel agents in worktrees, native orchestration across Code, Debug, Plan, and Ask roles, sessions that travel across interfaces, a 24/7 background agent called KiloClaw, and aggressive model neutrality with pay-per-token pricing.

The IDE Isn't Dead. It's Where the Agentic Stack Starts.