alt Hacker NewsI love a GUI app but calling TUI usage "that" is utterly limiting and unfortunate to put it mildly. I moved entirely to CLI/TUI just because dumping notes, handoffs, anything, and everything I want even for a literally literary work (grammar etc; let alone coding/planning work) is infinitely better. Also, control edits/changes/shapes/etc better among many other things. GUI doesn't even come close (nope!). That' the reason I moved to almost 100% CLI/TUI.
You're a software engineer living in a middle of an AI revolution and you confuse what IS with what CAN BE? GUI can be good people just didn't do them because it took time and the foundation was shit (for the options that didn't take time). That all changes now when a new class of software can be generated with AI. Unfortunately the people generating software and their users still base the decision on what IS (with highly technical reasoning such as "infinitely better"). People literally have the power to define what IS these days. I've only recently switched from claude and codex cli to their respective apps and those apps while not the best gui apps, already infinitely better than tui. The tui is actually hurting my main usage of them which is controlling agent programmatically. The only really point I'd give for TUI is compatibility. Running coding agent directly on android/ios is nice sometimes.