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And why are you assuming the industry converged to it when your following statement dismantles your assumption?

Spacex bought cursor, so it now has it’s agent ui which is just as good as codex + it’s multi-modal

Anthropic also has it’s own ui

Zai also launched theirs last month.

Everyone is converging back to UI.

The terminal was just a prototype, everyone knew that.

Just a prototype? I have no reason to leave the terminal for a GUI IDE. TUI works great, does what I need and is very easy to use and interact with.

TUI is not so great for copying a multiline block of text displayed on the terminal when it is indented or shown in a boxed widget.

I'm not saying that GUI are always better at allowing copying: this still requires the developer to design widgets that allow copying.

Claude code which is most used agent harness doesn’t have desktop equivalent

Apart from Claude desktop, that is...

It has had one for months. The desktop app has a "code" mode which is Claude Code in GUI form