Why Coding Agents Are Moving to the Terminal
CLI-based coding agents are overtaking IDE tools because they need access to the real development environment—databases, tests, git, and shell commands—not better code display.
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CLI-based coding agents are overtaking IDE tools because they need access to the real development environment—databases, tests, git, and shell commands—not better code display.
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