Interactive AI coding beats autocomplete every time #ai #coding

19 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief talk, the speaker outlines the evolution of developer workflows toward agentic coding. While simple tab‑completion in tools like Cursor is now considered the baseline, many developers have moved to conversational code assistants such as Claude Code or Codex, which can be accessed directly within Cursor. The speaker describes a preferred setup used at Headway: a terminal‑based environment powered by tmux, with a lazygit pane on the left and a chat pane on the right for interacting with the coding agent. This arrangement minimizes reliance on traditional IDEs, emphasizing a more lightweight, chat‑driven development experience.

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There are definitely levels to using agentic coding. You can just tab complete in Cursor. I think most people are past that these days. A lot of folks have transitioned to using something like a Claude Code or a Codex where they're chatting with the agent. You can even still do that in Cursor. I think most of us at Headway are using, you know, a terminal-based workflow with tmux and maybe something like lazy git in the left pane and your chat in the right pane. At least that's one of the ways that I'm doing a lot, and I'm in the IDE less and less these days.