We're all learning how to code with agents. If you're "in the bubble" it can feel like everyone is tokenmaxxing. Automating everything. Spinning up overnight agents to write full apps while they sleep. The reality I see with a lot of developers is much more normal:
They are copying and pasting code back and forth from VS Code and ChatGPT.
I am seeing slow adoption of built-in chat interfaces in IDEs like Copilot, Cursor, and Antigravity. CLI agents still feel relatively fringe among next-gen developers. I know this likely is not what you're hearing or seeing on Twitter.
Anyway, I've roasted plenty of developers for copying code back and forth from their IDEs into web chat interfaces. This week, I realized I have been doing the same thing, just with more terminal panes. A test fails in one terminal pane. An agent is working in another. I copy the error, paste it into the agent, wait, run another command, copy the next error, paste again.
My cool hacker-y CLI workflow suddenly felt..
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