AI Coding Agents Just Escaped The IDE: Codex, Gemini CLI, And The New Terminal Gold Rush

Developers used to meet AI inside the IDE, get a suggestion, accept it, move on. That model is already getting old. The new fight is happening in the terminal, where coding agents can read repos, run commands, inspect logs, patch files, and keep moving without waiting on every tiny click. Codex, Gemini CLI, and tools like Claude Code are pushing AI from autocomplete into real workflow control. That matters because the terminal is where serious software work already lives. If AI owns that layer...