Every Coding Agents & IDEs comparison and buyer's guide for building AI agents — 4 pieces and counting. Each is a head-to-head or a “best X for Y” roundup with a sources-backed verdict.
Three bets on the same idea — that the command line, not the IDE, is where coding agents live. And as of this month one of the three just changed its name and its terms.
The config-file war for how you talk to a coding agent didn't end with a winner. It ended with a foundation — and that changes which file you should actually write.
The four tools map to four architectural postures — and in a year when the companies keep getting acquired out from under their users, the posture is what you're actually choosing.
They aren't ranked by capability. They differ on where the agent runs and who holds the steering wheel — and that decides your blast radius, not your benchmark score.