Comment by _pdp_

The hacker aesthetics of TUIs, especially around coding agents, is undeniable and the fact that you can mostly run them on any shell (even remote) is neat.

But the UX? If you the goal is not to read a single line of the code churned by these agents, and perhaps that is the point, then they are fine - type the prompt and cross your fingers.

Anything else that requires reading and changing needs an IDE of sorts. I am not saying you cannot have your workflow works with TUIs - plenty of people do. It is just not as good and flexible as full desktop applications.