We moved away from @cursor_ai to @claudeai Code and Codex. Not because Cursor isn't good it is. But if you're on the bleeding edge, you're moving toward coding agents that don't need an IDE at all. Here's what that has actually changed at Multimodal: The workflow used to be: engineer understands the requirement, engineers writes the code, engineer reviews the PR, repeat. The workflow now is: agentic coding drafts the PRD from existing code and roadmap context, creates the Linear tickets, writes the implementation, generates the PR stack. The engineer reviews, redirects, architects. The ratio of human judgment to human execution has inverted. We run Claude Code and Codex in tandem — they're not the same tool. One plans, the other reviews. One drafts, the other stress-tests. The ping-pong between them catches things neither would alone. What this has meant in practice: we're hitting our product roadmap materially faster with the same team size. We measure it in two ways compression in time-to-release for product features, and PR volume normalized for headcount. The honest framing: the constraint isn't gone, it's just shifted. You still need engineers who can think architecturally, who know when the agent is wrong, who can define what "done" actually means. Those people are now 5-10x more productive. The engineers who can't operate at that level who still want to write every line themselves are increasingly misaligned with how software gets built now. That's not a comfortable thing to say. But it's what's true. #AgenticCoding# #AI# #Startups# #Engineering# #ClaudeCode#