
Ask HN: Anyone else went through the AI-editor carousel back to the terminal?My path over the last year or so: Cursor → Windsurf → VSCode + Claude → Warp → cmux → nvim + Claude Code Short version of what didn't stick:- Cursor: felt like a worse VSCode with AI bolted on- Windsurf: laggy enough to break flow- VSCode + Claude extension: actually the best of the bunch for a while, but started feeling like overkill once I realized 90% of what I used was the editor + chat sidebar- Warp: opinionated block UI and telemetry never sat right- cmux: lags unbearably, and I ended up babysitting parallel agents more than codingDropped all the way down to nvim with Claude Code as a sidebar and that's been the stickiest by a wide margin. Feels closer to pair programming than to orchestration or autocomplete.Current stack:- Ghostty (native splits, no multiplexer) + moonfly theme- zsh + Starship, zoxide/eza/bat/fd/rg, fzf history- Neovim on kickstart.nvim with lualine, neo-tree, telescope- Claude Code as an nvim sidebar, via subscription (not API)Dotfiles: https://github.com/Dold
