Terminal or editor-first UI? How do you prefer to work with AI coding agents?
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My preferred development environment is VSCode. That’s why I build my products directly as VSCode extensions. VSCode is also very flexible for working with AI agents and helps me handle all of my work comfortably.
While working with coding agents, I had a problem: I couldn’t properly track what the agent was doing. So I built a project for that: https://github.com/yessGlory17/argus
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Actually - maybe an unpopular 4th choice - I've been using the Claude desktop app quite a bit lately. Having used the CLI mostly, I'm finding that the desktop app is actually pretty nice.
@tnum great point. I suppose Claude Desktop, and related products like @Axel, @Superset, and @OpenAI's Codex, could fit in the terminal-first category, more "zoomed out" from the code.
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i like useing Vscode so i can see the documents. And deploy within terminals also. It's great
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My preferred development environment is VSCode. That’s why I build my products directly as VSCode extensions. VSCode is also very flexible for working with AI agents and helps me handle all of my work comfortably.
While working with coding agents, I had a problem: I couldn’t properly track what the agent was doing. So I built a project for that: https://github.com/yessGlory17/argus
Actually - maybe an unpopular 4th choice - I've been using the Claude desktop app quite a bit lately. Having used the CLI mostly, I'm finding that the desktop app is actually pretty nice.
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@tnum great point. I suppose Claude Desktop, and related products like @Axel, @Superset, and @OpenAI's Codex, could fit in the terminal-first category, more "zoomed out" from the code.
i like useing Vscode so i can see the documents. And deploy within terminals also. It's great
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@cindy34 definitely both!
I think IDE is too heavy, and CLI is lightweight and simple. But many times I have to use IDE