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Agent orchestration can sit above the IDE

Kevin Hou describes separating agent orchestration from the IDE. He compares the relationship to that of a debugger and an IDE: the lower layer supports deeper inspection but isn’t always needed.

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Get Out of the Model's Way — Kevin Hou, Google DeepMind

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We believe that the IDE is to the agent manager what the debugger was to the IDE. You don't always need a debugger, but it definitely is helpful to have it if you need to go a layer beneath and go one step deeper into that abstraction stack.

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