Agentic coding tools shouldn't be terminal-based
edgarpavlovsky · x · 2026-08-17
Patrick Collison commented that while he likes agentic coding harnesses, they shouldn't be primarily terminal-based. Terminals have extremely low information density and minimal UI affordances. He hopes we don't have to wait as long for these tools to break out of the terminal as dynamic language REPLs did.
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