# Amp — The Coding Agent Is Dead

- Company: Amp (ampcode.com)
- Announced: 2026-02-19
- Category: deprecation
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://ampcode.com/news/the-coding-agent-is-dead
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7756-the-coding-agent-is-dead
- Subject: Amp

Amp announced it is deprecating its editor extensions for VS Code and Cursor, effective March 5, and will focus on its CLI tool instead, citing that newer models no longer need the hand-holding of an editor agent.

## Evidence

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

> we're going to kill the Amp editor extensions for VS Code and Cursor.

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