Developer Tools: IDE & Terminal

The editing surface itself is being rebuilt for agents. A new category of terminal emulators is emerging specifically for agentic workflows — vertical tabs, better notifications, and embedded/scriptable browsers optimized for long-running sessions — with libghostty becoming a platform for terminal innovation as the terminal layer is reinvented for the AI coding era. Decode pushes the same convergence inside Claude Code, embedding a browser and whiteboard for a visual feedback loop where developers annotate UX issues while the agent codes. UI exploration is being decoupled from git: UIFork lets developers fork UI variations within a single branch and flip between them in the running app, pointing at a new "design-in-code" category that bridges Figma-style exploration and production code, while Tool UI renders JSON tool outputs as inline, narrated, schema-stable surfaces inside chat (solving raw-text result dumps) and Nuxt UI templates reflect the broader pull toward starting from designed baselines rather than primitives. Cross-device development is maturing: Orca IDE on MacBook and phone with Tailscale enables seamless access to Hermes and other agent setups from any device. Even "headless" still needs human eyes — Astropad Workbench is a high-performance remote desktop for monitoring agents on headless Mac Minis from an iPad or iPhone.