I've used all of these tools and for me Cursor works just as well but has tabs, easy ways to abort or edit prompts, great visual diff, etc...

Someone sell me on how Claude Code, I just don't get it.

I feel with people that say that "AI have take the fun out of programming" for them, but at the same time I think to myself: is it about doing, or is it about getting things done? Like I imagine someone in the past loved their job walking each night through their city, lighting up the gas-powered street lights. And then one day someone else implemented electric street lights, and the first person lost the job they loved. But in the end, its about providing light to the city streets, no? For the great majority of work, it is not about fun, but about doing something other people need or want. For me, AI allows me to realize my ideas, and get things done. Some of it might be good, some of it might be bad. I put at least as much time, attention and effort as the "real" programmers do, but my time goes into thinking and precisely defining what I want, cutting it up into smaller logical modules, testing, identifying and fixing bugs, iterating all the time.

I was a big fan of a good keyboard-driven git TUI like magit, neogit, lazygit, etc... (as long as you learn the CLI first and understand it).

Now I no longer directly use git, but instead use jujutsu (jj).

Once I became very proficient in the jj cli, I picked up jjui: https://github.com/idursun/jjui

Also, as splitting commits is an extremely frequent operation, this neovim plugin is really nice: https://github.com/julienvincent/hunk.nvim

Also this neovim plugin is amazing for resolving jj conflicts: https://github.com/rafikdraoui/jj-diffconflicts

Now with jj instead of git I edit the commit graph as effortlessly as if I am moving lines of code around a file in my editor.

They are competing with Claude Code already. The competition is not over who can built the nicest CLI.

I really like the IDE. It makes enough mistakes that I need to be constantly testing and catching little errors. I’ll interrupt the flow often when it’s going down a path I don’t want it to. When using Codex, for example, it’s doing too much in the background that is harder to correct afterwards. Am I doing this wrong?

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Worried about money? They are already rich beyond their wildest dreams. They are, reasonably, excited about growing and expanding and building a company that does much more, but that is not driven by a need for money, it is driven by their ambition.

edit: I can’t speak for Adam etc., this is just my impression. My impression is that they want to build a business of which tailwind (the open source project) is one part. I think that regardless of money in the bank they would want to have revenue generating projects. Laravel is a good comparable.