I like a light editor with syntax highlighting and basic linting. Last time I was coding regularly I used VS code, but had only the default plugins. I only used it for basic text input. I always ran git and my code from the terminal. Does that help?
Try claude. It's basically the cli agent everyone is catching up to.
Start prompting it for annoying shit "Set up a project layout for X", then write things yourself inside that - the fun stuff or stuff you care about.
Then use it for refactors or extrapolation "I wrote this thing that works, but this old file is still in old format, do what I did there"
It's very good for helping with design of just above layperson knowledge. "I have this problem organizing xyz, what's a good pattern for this?"
or just "I want to do a project that does xyz, but dont know where to start, let's chat about it"
Some of these 'chatty' queries can be done in web, but having it on CLI is great b/c it'll just say "Can I do this for you" and you can easily delegate parts of the plan.
Give it a shot. That's pretty low level agentic use, and yes, it will demolish procrastination and startup inertia.
