I have been living in the terminal more than ever lately.

Not because I suddenly hate GUIs. The terminal just started feeling like the place where the interesting work happens again. Between Claude Code, Cursor’s agent mode, Windsurf, and whatever Aider fork is hot this week, the old “open IDE, click around, type some code” loop feels… slow.

But I am not ready to declare the IDE dead. Not yet.

the shift is real, but it is not just about speed

The argument for agentic terminals is straightforward.

You describe what you want. The agent plans, edits files, runs tests, fixes issues, and hands you a diff or a PR.…