🚀 I Mass Terminated My Copilot Plans. Here's Why Claude Code Won.

How an agentic AI in the terminal replaced my IDE plugins, scaffold scripts, and half my Stack Overflow tabs—without ever opening a GUI The Moment I Realized My Coding Workflow Was a Lie Every developer eventually hits the same wall: "I have 4 AI extensions, 12 keyboard shortcuts, and I'm still copy-pasting code between a chatbot and my editor." Tab-complete autocomplete? Great for variable names. IDE chat panels? Nice for explaining regex. But the moment you need an AI to actually understand your codebase, edit 14 files, run your tests, and fix its own mistakes —the shiny plugins fall apart. Then I tried something that felt reckless: I gave an AI full access to my terminal. Specifically: Claude Code—Anthropic's agentic coding tool that lives in your CLI, reads your repo, writes real code, and executes commands. I haven't looked back. TL;DR (If You Only Read One Section) Problem: AI coding assistants that autocomplete lines can't architect solutions. Chat-based tools require endless co