How I Rebuilt My Development Workstation for Agentic Work

kept by eddie aug 10

The author rebuilt their development workstation around terminal-native tools like WezTerm, tmux, and Neovim to support agentic workflows with parallel human-agent collaboration across Git worktrees.

Ghostty – Terminal Emulator
Hacker News discusses Ghostty terminal emulator's performance, missing features like search, SSH issues, and creator MitchellH's updates on libghostty ecosystem and upcoming 1.3.0 release.
also on WezTerm, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
Fast regex search: indexing text for agent tools
Cursor is building local indexes for regular expression search to reduce agent wait times from 15-second ripgrep runs in large monorepos.
also on ripgrep, #ai-coding, #software-engineering, #productivity, #developer-tools
How We Improved Agentic Search
Ranking search results to surface definitions before tests and vendor code improves first-query retrieval and helps coding agents find the right files sooner, while raw speed gains alone barely reduce end-to-end runtime.
also on ripgrep, #ai-coding, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
crawshaw - 2026-02-08
AI coding agents have improved dramatically in the past year, now writing 90% of code, causing IDEs to wane as he returns to Vi.
also on Neovim, #ai-coding, #productivity, #developer-tools
Herdr: one terminal for the whole herd
Herdr is a terminal-based agent multiplexer that lets users run, monitor, and reattach to multiple AI coding agents across SSH sessions from any device.
also on tmux, Codex, #ai-coding, #productivity, #developer-tools