Agents in your sprints

Plus new developer tools and discussions to get those cogs turning

May 07, 2025

The Breakpoint

Hey all, welcome back to The Breakpoint, our weekly newsletter covering everything in developer tools on Product Hunt. This edition: Agents in your sprint, Zed’s latest big update, and a convo on whether building locally is worth it.

The Latest

Five of the most interesting recent dev tool (or dev tool-adjacent) launches on the site. 

  • Shortcut for Agents plugs AI workers straight into the Shortcut backlog. Give an agent its own seat, point it at the next ticket, and watch it write code, update docs, or move cards on its own.

  • Zed Agentic Editing adds AI agents directly into your dev workflow, letting them generate, refactor, and explain code alongside you in Zed, like a coding pair that doesn’t get tired.

  • CodeTogether lets developers code live together without sharing screens—just join a session, collaborate in real time, and debug as a team, no installs needed.

  • Preswald is an AI agent that helps you build dashboards, internal tools, and data apps. It gives you a fast, reactive runtime, built-in UI components (tables, charts, inputs), and one-click deployment

  • EchoComet feeds your entire codebase into AI platforms with massive context windows, enabling deep analysis and problem-solving that traditional IDE-based AI tools can't match.

Is local dead yet?

Replies snapped into three camps:

  • Native fans: faster, works offline, keeps your data off random servers.

  • Web warriors: single codebase, push updates instantly, easier growth loops.

  • Hybrid realists: launch on the web, wrap it native if users beg.

One money note: SaaS investors chase browser ARR, so desktop usually means selling one-off licenses.

Quick thread, big question. Scroll it if you’re torn between shipping .app files or living in the tab bar.