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Terminals and coding agents
Comparisons and practical guides for running AI coding agents on a Mac. We build one of the tools in these posts, so we say so where it comes up and try to be useful to you even when the answer is a competitor.
Claude Code from your phone: what actually works in 2026
The question people actually mean is one of two things, and they have completely different answers: run the agent somewhere else, or reach the one already running on your Mac.
ReadCodex CLI sandbox modes, and the part the sandbox does not cover
Codex ships a sandbox, which is more than most agents do. Two things about it are worth knowing before you tune it, and one of them is a macOS quirk that will bite anyone trying to add a boundary of their own.
ReadClaude Code says your session limit is reached. What to do with the next four hours
The annoying part is not the wait. It is that the wait usually costs you the twenty minutes of context the agent had just built up, and you pay for that twice.
ReadHow to sandbox an AI coding agent on macOS
Every sandbox answers the same question: if this agent does the worst thing it could do, what breaks? They differ in how much of your working setup you give up to get that answer, and they agree on one blind spot.
ReadClaude Code yolo mode: what --dangerously-skip-permissions actually skips
Nobody enables it because they stopped caring. They enable it because approving the fourteenth file edit is not review, it is clicking, and the clicking was not making anything safer.
ReadThe best terminal for AI coding agents in 2026
The terminal question changed. It used to be about rendering speed and configuration. Once most of what runs in your terminal is an agent, it becomes about memory, isolation and credentials.
ReadThe best terminal for Claude Code in 2026
Claude Code runs fine in any terminal. The question only gets interesting at the third session, when you stop being able to remember which tab is doing what.
ReadHow to run multiple coding agents in parallel on a Mac
Running four agents at once is easy. Stopping them from undoing each other's work, and knowing what any of them decided, is the part nobody warns you about.
ReadThe terminal setup for vibe coding, without losing the thread
The appeal of vibe coding is not writing the code. The thing that ends it is coming back an hour later and having no idea what any of it does.
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