Every tool seems to have a coding agent horned in these days..... I don't think that makes sense.

Ben Halpern argues that the current wave of coding-agent integrations across developer tools is more reflexive than reasoned — that product teams are adding agents because competitors did, not because the workflow demands it. It is an opinion piece, not a tool, so grading it on technical depth is beside the point. The value is the framing: it gives a vocabulary for the skepticism a lot of builders already feel but have not articulated. If a founder is deciding whether to add an agent surface to their own SaaS, the post is a useful five-minute gut check. The reservation is the obvious one: it is a blog post, not a framework or a benchmark, and it does not go deep enough to change a product decision on its own. Useful as a pointer to a conversation happening in the builder community, not as a standalone resource. -> Best for: technical PM or solo founder evaluating whether to add agent features to their product