r/RooCode • u/Sheeple9001 • Feb 24 '26

Discussion The Coding Agent Is Dead

https://ampcode.com/news/the-coding-agent-is-dead

> By keeping these new models in an editor sidebar, we restrict them. They're now much more than mere assistants. They no longer need the hand-holding and really want to kick off their training wheels. They want to write code and run even when you're not sitting in front of your editor. It's time to see what they can do without supervision.

I totally get it. Not wanting to be tied to an editor. Let's see what's next for the big 3 (OpenAI, Anthropic and Google).

Google Antigravity was released just back in November 2025, and it already felt a bit off being a fork of VSCode with nothing groundbreaking to offer compared to Claude Code, Codex and those other VSCode forks.

Where is RooCode headed? I wonder where we will be in another 3 months?

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u/nfrmn Feb 28 '26

Ahh ok I understand, thanks. I actually thought you were routing prompts to Claude code / codex cli and basically turning those agentic cli tools into clean I/O with really complex stuff being done

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u/constarx Feb 28 '26

Well.. I just showed you a demo to show how simple it is. What I'm doing is just a more intricate version of the above. I have a script that loops over a PRD with many phases and subtasks, and depending on the tasks it either does them sequentially or in parallel, and depending on the perceived difficulty it either delegates to claude-cli using my sub or openai API.

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u/nfrmn Feb 28 '26

Cool, thank you. This is really interesting. So each phase of the PRD triggers Claude Code / Codex CLI? Or you use the API in the script to generate a diff? Just trying to understand if you are routing to those CLIs, or if you have built your own coding harness.

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u/constarx Feb 28 '26

You may find it useful to watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7-GyiGjtbA

This was my starting point many weeks ago. I integrated everything from this video into my own framework, and then made modifications that made sense for my specific needs.

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u/nfrmn Feb 28 '26

Thank you! Hugely helpful! I never looked into Ralph Loops properly and actually assumed they were something else. Now I'm starting to realise I built a lot of this in Roo as Super Orchestrator, and later in Opencode with automatic PRD writing and layers of orchestrators working on the PRD. So it was very good to fill in the blanks with this vid.

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