Most developer frustration with AI coding assistants comes from conflating the editor, the agent loop, the gateway, and the model. Here is how the four layers actually fit together, where failures originate, and how to build a setup that survives production work.
Piping tmux selections directly to clip.exe leaves trailing pane padding, broken prompt glyphs, and line ending mismatches in your clipboard. Here is a fast, sanitized copy-paste pipeline built for WSL2.
Most tmux guides dump the whole key table on you. These are the pane and window bindings that survive contact with a real workday: splits, navigation, layout, and the marked-pane tricks tmux never bound for you.
“Agentic” gets thrown around loosely, but it means something specific: an assistant that decides its own next step instead of waiting for yours. That’s also exactly why you can’t trust it to tell you when it’s done a good job; here’s the verification habit that fixes that.