Gabe Perez kicked off a debate by confessing he’s torn between Cursor’s slick visual IDE and Gemini CLI inside Warp. As a “vibe coder” who’d rather let AI handle most of the typing, he wants to know which workflow actually speeds you up.
Reactions split into two camps. On one side you’ve got folks like steve beyatte urging IDE plugins for Claude Code so you get visual diff views and fewer surprises. On the other Thomas Schranz argues a richer web UI will outlast any terminal hack once model speed and context management catch up. Others—Nina Dou included—blend tools, using Trickle or Cursor for quick edits and dropping into Gemini CLI when they need raw power.
So here’s the real question: do you stay in the visual playground for safety and clarity or embrace the CLI for full agent-driven speed?