[Marazan]

It's LARPing.

Everyone knows all the best programmers are using the command line firing off one line Awk scripts that look like runic incantations occasionally opening vim to do stuff at blazing warp speed.

So the AI tools people build want to take on those trappings to convince people they are serious tools for grown ups.

Ignore that they are basically a full web stack React/CSS conglomeration - feel the L33t hackerness of 'using the command line'. No IDE like a scrub developer you are using a text console, you are a real programmer now.

[anthk]

Actual hackers will use AWK and anything else... over Acme under 9front which is pretty much graphical, and current Emacs users will use a graphical setup with tons of keybindings, commands and Elisp functions. The best of both worlds. You have both the scriptability, keyboard shortcuts and mouse for selection and quick pointng.