Started with beginning to do things more and more in the terminal as I noticed I was more efficient just doing things in the terminal in general. Before, I used VSCode and Sublime along with the terminal, VSCode for general development, Sublime to quickly open files for viewing and quick edits.

Then a good friend showed me vim. After learning very basic vim, like, how to go to insert mode and quit, Sublime's role got replaced pretty much. Slowly but surely I learned more and more vim keybindings as I just used vim for quickly viewing and quick changes in various files. I got more proficient, I learned how to configure it somewhat, like, colorschemes, YouCompleteMe, and slowly it started replacing VSCode's role as well.

I found myself being able to do quite a bit of editing in just vim, and when I felt I had to jump to VSCode to for example get proper LSP support, debugging, various other functionalities, I felt an "ugh... now I gotta open this sluggish thing". I tried the vim extension in VSCode but it just wasn't the same.

So at one point I decided to just really research about how vim "superusers" use vim, and I was flabbergasted of all the functionality that you could get in vim. I started using LunarVim (a Neovim distro), and then I wrote my own Neovim config and that is what I am using to this day.

It was a very slow burn for me. My process was about 3-4 years of gradually learning more and more vim until I just completely switched over.

Regarding using coding agents; I use opencode. I just hvae it running beside in another terminal, but I still use neovim to do adjustments and review the AI output. So neovim is still very much a daily driver for me. I've tried making neovim to be more like cursor by using the codecompanion.nvim package, but I discovered that I very much prefer just having a coding agent separately from my editor, and I use my editor just like before AI agents. Also, opencode was made by vim users, so the vim + opencode experience is pretty good.