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Now that we're all using these terminal agents like Copilot CLI and Cloud Code, the question is which terminal program should I be using? And the answer is Visual Studio Code. And here's why.
In Visual Studio Code, you often think of the terminal as just being here in the bottom panel, but that's not actually true. You can open terminals in the editor area here. And you can bind this to a keyboard shortcut. I do control option T so that I can just open a new terminal here. And then I can fire up the Cop-lot CLI. And the great thing about this is you can open a bunch of these tabs like this and then you can arrange them however you want because of VS Code's layout and grid system for tabs.
And the other thing I love about the Visual Studio Code terminal is that you can click on file paths. So for instance here, it created a plan, but it didn't actually give me the plan in the project. It's in some temporary folder here. So I can just hover over command and click and then open up the plan document right here in Visual Studio Code, which is how you want to see this kind of a file. You don't want to have to read this in the terminal.
And then finally, the best thing about the terminal is that Copilot's built in. So command or controlI and you get inline chat and then now you're a terminal expert. You can do absolutely anything in the terminal with AI. I use this all the time and that's why Visual Studio Code is still the best place to run your agents even if you're only using a terminal.