Vibe Coding in Parallel Was Chaos—So I Built Agent Buddy for VS Code

I Built a Tiny AI Buddy 👉 Agent Buddy on the VS Code Marketplace When you run multiple AI coding sessions at once, context switching gets expensive. I kept finding myself asking: Which session is actively editing? Which one is stuck thinking? Did that terminal run finish? Is this session healthy or silently failing? So I built a small VS Code extension: Agent Buddy — an animated sidebar companion that reacts to coding activity in real time. It’s basically a status dashboard disguised as a character. And honestly? It makes long, text-heavy vibe coding sessions feel lighter. Why I built it Two reasons: Parallel AI sessions need fast visual feedback I often have several AI workflows running in parallel. Reading logs or scanning text for each session is slow. I wanted an at-a-glance signal for “what’s happening now.” Vibe coding can be textually intense Constant walls of text are mentally fatiguing. A simple visual layer breaks that up. It turns monitoring from “reading everything” into “g