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Addy Osmani argues that agentic coding terminals and desktop apps have low bandwidth for harnesses, advocating for cloud-native solutions accessible from anywhere. Patrick Collison adds that terminal-based harnesses have minimal UI affordances.
MeshPilot is an AI workspace for terminals, tasks, and agents.
The article explores various fundamental problems with text rendering in terminal emulators, including character definition ambiguity, Unicode handling issues, flawed 2D grid assumptions, and cursor desyncs, highlighting the difficulty of supporting complex scripts and fonts.