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"Glorified Middleware" or New Form of Arbitrage?

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Joe Guglielmucci
Jul 04, 2025
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Code Wrapping is not going away, I see posts lamenting about how all the major IDEs look and feel the same (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini, Windsurf, CoPilot/VsCode, etc).

My argument/explanation for this is its not because everyone is trying to copy each other that they all look so similar, it is more because this tech is so brand new, people are only exp…

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