Gabe Perez

Coding with an AI IDE (visual) vs AI CLI (Terminal), what's better?

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I've been primarily using @Cursor as I like how it operates, enjoy that it's visual, and I am getting very comfortable with using it and being able to easily select different code bits and modify what I need....however....

I recently started using Gemini CLI in @Warp and I must say... I'm kinda liking it. I feel that it's able to do a lot more, faster without needing me to jump in. When I do jump in, it's simply to provide it guidence and direction.

I haven't done much with it yet, but I can see myslef now doing a combination of CLI and IDE development. I'm curious what everyone elses experience is! Or if you haven't used a CLI or IDE AI tool, why?

A bit of additional background, I'm not a develpoer but more of a "vibe coder" I can kinda understand different languages and don't mind diving into tech docs but I prefer AI do more of the coding than me :)

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Seth Geib

There are terminal CLIs inside of IDEs. You can literally use both. Why are you acting like you need to choose?

vishal pandey
does not make much difference at the end it's all about the prompt you make, context you give, testing done and feedback provided for vibe coding. also you would need to understand certain part of codes, discuss with llm. for doing both cursor just works best.