Changing Devtools Is Cheap. Owning Them Isn’t.

In Devtools must be open source1 (via), David Crawshaw makes the case that, because of coding agents, we’re now in an era where devtools will be personalized by individual users. Specifically, agents’ ability to jump into new codebases and build whatever we want means we’ll be hacking on the source of the devtools we use day to day (even those without extension APIs) adding features and…