AI coding tools are shifting to a surprising place: the terminal

AI coding tools are shifting from traditional code editors to terminal-based interfaces. Major companies like Anthropic, DeepMind, and OpenAI have released command-line coding tools that handle broader development tasks beyond just writing code, including DevOps operations and environment configuration. This approach uses benchmarks like TerminalBench instead of GitHub-focused tests, tackling step-by-step problem solving in complex environments. While traditional tools like Cursor may actually slow developers down according to recent studies, terminal-based tools like Warp show promise for handling non-coding development work autonomously.