I'm not sure how you can believe that GitHub Copilot in VS Code is just a CLI interface when the former existed long before the CLI. It's not. For a certain amount of time, the two teams weren't even working together. The CLI was adding things customers were wondering when would it reach VS Code. So, it's not just a CLI harness. They added the ability to call the CLI from VS Code but GitHub Copilot in VS Code existed before the CLI and is remains a separate thing that's just interfacing with the CLI now.
All I can say is I know because I know. There's been some "synergizing" among the corporation about the CLI team running off to do their own thing and adding features to the CLI that amount to trying to force a Terminal to act like a GUI.
It instantly made me think this was either written by AI or heavily edited, and I hadn't gotten that sense until the moment I saw load-bearing.
I hate that em dashes have been killed by AI as well. Hundreds of years ago Charles Dickens was using them in his novels and today someone will read his books and in ignorance actually think AI wrote it.
The Databricks thing was a ploy. They then pushed Azure Synapse Analytics and forced all internal teams to stop using Azure Databricks. Synapse was half baked and then they are now pushing Microsoft Fabric which is even less baked.
It's hilarious to me how we are recreating decades of IDE advancements such that they work on the terminal, only for us to end up with what is essentially an IDE.
Unrelated but your comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44736176 related to the Terminal agents coding craze have helped me feel less crazy. People using GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code, they either never review the code or end up opening up an IDE to review the code, and I'm sitting here like, why don't you use the terminal in your favorite IDE? You're using a Terminal as a chat interface, so why not just use a chat interface? Or use the terminal in VS Code which actually now integrates very well with Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI so you can see what's going on across the many files this thing is editing?
The hype is so large with the CLI coding tools I got FOMO, but as you were saying in that thread, I see no tangible improvement to the value I get out of AI coding tools by using the CLI alone. I use the CLI in VS Code, and I use the chat panel, and the only thing that seems to actually make a difference is the "context engineering" stuff of custom instructions, agent skills, prompt files, hooks, custom agents, all that stuff, which works no matter which interface you use to kick off your AI coding instructions.
Would be curious to hear your thoughts on the topic all these months later.
I am personally refreshed reading through the comments here and seeing a nuanced, rational response to the ad rather than the manufactured outrage you mentioned.
This whole thread is classic overthinking. Advertising isn’t a binary good/bad morality thing. It is in many ways subjective. There have been times an ad helped me learn about something that solved a problem or need I have. There have been times where an ad was pushing something that I personally (subjectively) consider to be useless junk.
It depends. Ads aren’t inherently good or evil. Step back from dogma for a second.
https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/nobody-gets-promoted...