Why your AI coding assistant is actually slowing you down (and how I built a way out)

The author argues that current AI coding tools force developers into a tedious copy-paste loop between terminal errors and chat windows, destroying flow state. To solve this, they built Glass Arc, a VS Code extension that proactively watches the workspace for save-triggered side effects and auto-heals terminal crashes. However, deploying to the VS Code Marketplace revealed that Microsoft restricts terminal-reading APIs for security reasons, forcing a pivot from an automatic background listener to a manual interceptor approach.