In Search of the Agent IDE for Data

I thought this would take one evening. Open repo on the left. Agent on the right. Git somewhere visible. My own API key. Done. Instead I spent a week bouncing between editors, terminal apps, desktop wrappers, that slowly turned into me assembling an IDE out of separate tools like it was 2009 again. Update: 2026-08-09 # I have a tier list now. The custom Ghostty stack is still the best thing here,…