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This is going to vary wildly by what you do and how much CLI you use.

I’m an SRE and the answer is “constantly”. I get pulled in a lot of directions, it’s way easier to maintain context if I open a new terminal or tab for each thing.

Joe asks about something, I open a terminal. Teammate asks about something, new terminal. Joe replies, I swap back to his terminal to look at the scrollback buffer.

I’m closer to you when doing more dev work. One tab running a watcher for builds and restarting the app, one tab to run tests or whatever, a couple for poking around if I need to grep or curl or whatever.