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We could do complicated UIs in terminals in the 1990s.

Unfortunately, vibe coders cannot do that anymore.

Yes I don't understand why Claude code needs to be a terminal app.

It doesn't compose with any other command line program and the terminal interface is limiting.

I'm surprised nobody has yet made a coding assistant that runs in the browser or as a standalone app. At this point it doesn't really need to integrate with my text editor or IDE.

> It doesn't compose with any other command line program

For what it's worth, it absolutely can, just not when invoked in interactive mode.

(This doesn't really contradict your overall point though.)

Please for the love of God no. I rather have something completely agnostic of an IDE. OpenCode is doing the right thing IMO

You can have something IDE agnostic but still not be dependent on the ancient VT100 terminal protocol and rendering path.

(That said I do like being able to SSH in and run an agent that way. But there are other remote access modalities.)