CLI coding agents killed my IDE — anyone else?
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CLI coding agents killed my IDE — anyone else?
Genuine question: since CLI-based coding agents became a thing, how many of you have actually stopped opening your editor?
I’ll go first — I switched to Claude Code CLI a while back and honestly haven’t launched an IDE since. Terminal + agent handles everything I need. No extensions, no config, no tabs. Just a prompt and my codebase.
But I know not everyone’s there. So I’m curious:
Are you still using Cursor, VS Code, or another IDE daily?
If yes — has the way you use it changed? (Less writing, more reviewing?)
Or have you gone full CLI like me?
No wrong answers — just want to see where people actually are with this, not where the hype says we should be 👇
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For me, CLI agents haven't killed my IDE yet. I've just shifted routine tasks to the terminal and kept the IDE for deeper debugging and code exploration.
With you. Once you get used to the terminal flow, the IDE feels bloated. I only open it now as a fallback when the agent and I hit a weird edge case.
laqad 'ahdith aistikhdam wajihat satr al'awamir mae alwakil nuqlatan naweiatan fi 'iintajiti, mimaa yadfaeuni liltasawul eamaa 'iidha kan easr biyat altatwir almutakamilat altaqlidiat fi tariqih 'iilaa alzawali. shkhsyan, antqlt klyan 'iilaa aistikhdam wajihat satr al'awamiri, lakinani 'aerif aleadid min almustakhdimin almutaqadimin aladhin ma zaluu yufadilun Cursor.
📌 'iilaa mujtamae almutawirina:
hal ma ziltum tastakhdimun biyat tatwir mutakamila (Cursor/VS Code) bishakl yawmi, 'am aintaqaltum klyan 'iilaa alwukala' eabr satr al'awamir? 'iidha kuntum ma ziltum tastakhdimun biyat tatwir mutakamilatin, fakayf taghayar astikhdamukum laha? (hal qllt alkitabat wazadat almurajaeata?)
la tujad 'iijabat khatiat huna, fa'ana mutashawiq limaerifat alwaqie mqarntan bialdajat al'iielamiati. 👇"
I’m somewhere in the middle.
Most of my actual coding happens in CLI these days, but Cursor and Antigravity are still open almost every day.
The main reason isn’t coding anymore — it’s reading. A huge part of my workflow now lives in Markdown files: project docs, specs, notes, plans, meeting summaries, knowledge bases, etc.
I still find MD files much easier to browse, navigate, and review inside an editor than in a pure CLI workflow. So in practice I often use Claude Code through the Cursor/Antigravity plugin: Claude does the work, while the IDE becomes my document viewer and navigation layer.
For me, the IDE didn’t die. It just stopped being the place where I write code and became the place where I read and organize context.
Still using my IDE daily, but mostly for reviewing and validating rather than writing code. The agent does more of the typing; I do more of the thinking and steering.