I’ve switched terminal emulators 3 times this year. My dev experience didn’t change at all.
That’s the power of dotfiles.
AI coding agents are evolving fast. Claude Code just shipped /teleport, background agents, subagent hooks — features that used to be terminal-only are coming everywhere.
So why do I still invest in my terminal setup?
Because no one ships your workflow for you.
Everything I configure is a text file, managed with Git: Terminal (tmux, zsh), Editor (Neovim), AI agents (Claude Code, Codex CLI), Scripts that glue them together.
One git clone and I have my full setup on any machine. When a tool dies, I swap it. The rest stays.