Yuchen Jin：终端时代已结束，智能体才是新原语
I was a terminal person for 15+ years.
Yuchen Jin 称自己用了 15 年以上终端，但认为终端时代已经结束，因为终端假设人类直接通过文件、命令和进程操作计算机，而智能体改变了这一点：用户只需说出意图，智能体便用同样的编程语言和 Linux 命令操作机器。他同时表示不再使用 Claude Code 或 Codex CLI，也很少用 Cursor 这类 IDE 浏览整个代码库，认为新原语是智能体而非文件，并称 Codex 桌面应用是目前最好的智能体 UI。
查看原帖I haven’t touched Claude Code or Codex CLI in a while. The terminal era is over imo. It's the wrong interface for coding agents. Tabs are ephemeral, but context is persistent, and managing 30 tabs is pure cognitive overhead. I don’t really need an IDE like Cursor either. I rarely navigate the whole codebase anymore. The new primitive is the agent, not…
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I haven’t touched Claude Code or Codex CLI in a while. The terminal era is over imo. It's the wrong interface for coding agents. Tabs are ephemeral, but context is persistent, and managing 30 tabs is pure cognitive overhead. I don’t really need an IDE like Cursor either. I rarely navigate the whole codebase anymore. The new primitive is the agent, not the file. (Codex desktop app is the best agentic UI for now. But we’re still early.)
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I was a terminal person for 15+ years.
I loved Vim, knew all the shortcuts, and a black terminal made me feel like I was a cool hacker in The Matrix.
But terminals assume humans operate computers directly via files, commands, processes.
Agents changed all that.
You just say your intent. The agent operates the machine, using the same programming languages and Linux commands we spent years learning.
I’m still glad I learned computer systems before the AI era though. Understanding what sits beneath the abstraction makes you a better systems thinker.
That’s a moat in the AI era.