[necrotic_comp]

If you do work on a number of different machines, in production and in dev, knowing what host you're on, what directory you're in, etc. helps avoid errors like killing a process in prod when you thought you were in dev.

While writing code, it's helpful to know what branch you're on with git, so you don't accidentally commit code to the wrong branch, etc.

I typically have something like 30-40 terminals open at a time, grouped into windows in tmux, so having everything categorized and visible at a glance is kind of a necessity.

[eddieh]

I have ssh sessions to remote machines, I use multiple terminal windows, and multiple tabs. I don’t use tmux, is there something about tmux that makes it hard to know where you are?

[necrotic_comp]

There's nothing specific about tmux that makes it hard to know where you are, but it does let you keep any number of terminals open on one screen, which is super-helpful, but requires a lot of mental overhead to keep track of where everything is.

If you're able to keep track of the context of 50 windows without a prompt, more power to you, but that's not something I can do and I require some signage to ground where a specific prompt is.