Overall I would describe it as "amusing."
replyIf you told me 3 years ago that terminal usage would _increase_ I would've laughed. Beyond that, I'm now having regular conversations with the frontier agentic coding companies (since they're far and away the largest terminal users at the moment) and if you had told me 2 years ago that that would be happening because of a terminal, I would've laughed even harder.
So, it's amazing. But overall, its amusing.
Would a terminal deal with them have added another billion to your account if it hadn’t been nonprofit?
replyProbably not. I don't know. Who cares.
replyWait, really? So I’ve used the terminal for everything for decades, and now, because of vibe coding, all The Kids have joined me? I don’t even know how to feel about that. Better terminals are nice though.
replyRight? It’s been kind of funny watching everyone “rediscover” the terminal and I’m over here feeling like a true graybeard “silly kids, I’ve been here the whole time.”
replyWhat’s old is new again is apparently just as true in tech as it is in fashion.
The terminal was _always awesome_, the bar to realized that was just a tad high for many people. Until now!
replyhere-doc usage has probably 100x-ed in the last year
replyIt's because the web developers who destroyed the web are now taking their mess with them into more obscure places, such as terminals, hardware and AI.
replyThat's probably why it is so hyped up as it is right now.
Embrace, Embellish, Enshittify.
replyI think terminal workflows are intimidating for a lot of people, because the discoverability is lower than GUIs. You can't necessarily intuit how a CLI works, you have to read the documentation or watch a tutorial, which my 10 years in the IT industry has taught me a big barrier even for really experienced SWEs. The new coding TUIs are a more gentle introduction to that.
replyYeah it’s been amusing to see people rediscovering tmux as well
reply/* Claude Code is the strongest case of the return to the mainframe: a closed, bespoke, paid service that nothing locally run compares to. Terminals are just a natural part of the mainframe world! */
replyOnce he fixes the past he will have more time to fix the future
replyHe was on a podcast recently where he talked about that a little. It’s on Youtube.
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