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The Death of the Learning Curve: Using Agentic AI to Democratize the World's Hardest Text Editor
---
title: "The Death of the Learning Curve"
sub_title: "Using Agentic AI to Democratize the World's Hardest Text Editor"
author: "United by AI, Chennai - 2026"
---
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/init
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```sh
$ whoami
```
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CTO, Charing Cross
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Building AI Apps since GPT-3
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I like living in terminal
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Charing Cross, Inc
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We are a technology consulting firm based out of Canada with presence in US, Europe and Middle East.
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Some of the stuff we have built with AI:
## Optik_Invoice
- AP Automation for Enterprises
- Document Parsing & Enterprise Intelligence
## Darwin
- Internal Agentic Orchestration System
- Event Driven, Multi Queue, Long running AI Agents using OS primitives.
## Trust Tunnel
- Privacy Application in healthcare settings
## Rezolution Engine
- India's First Insolvency & Bankruptcy Ecosystem
- Agentic Lawyers
- AI powered court hearings identification
- 10K+ Documents Processed
- 5.6 Million Case Hearings Extracted
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What is the talk about?
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- Coding is increasingly automated
- Software Engineering isn't
- Agents can create good quality code
- We still have to do Code reviews, Steer the Agents, provide context, fix hallucinations, etc.
- Human-in-the-loop is still relevant
- But how can we make the experience for the humans better?
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Terminal Native Workflows & TUIs
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- Agents live in Terminal
- Codex
- Claude Code
- Gemini-Cli
- and others...
- Using Terminal is fast and efficient
- Unix philosophy
- Fast context switching
- Less Friction, Work at the speed of your thought
- Personalisation: Make the environment completely yours
> **The Goal:** Low friction, Terminal speed, AI-assisted, Personal Development Environment
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But...
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# Getting started is Harder
- Learning Curve
- Different configuration for different tools
- Read the Docs, Google, StackOverflow etc.
- Need to spend months/years becoming proficient
- Many give up here...
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> And that is how the Past looked like.
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What if we let Agents build our own Personal Development Environment?
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Introducing, OpenCode
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OpenCode
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![image:width:50%](./assets/opencode.png)
✨ Free & Open Source
✨ Alternative to Claude Code, Codex Cli, Gemini-Cli, etc.
✨ Lives in Terminal, Built to work along with terminal editors
## Features
- Huge model support via [](models.dev)
- Plan Mode: Plan with Agent without writing code
- Build mode: Writes the code for you
- Extend by writing your own:
- Agents
- SubAgents
- Commands
- Skills
- Tools
- Permissions
- Keybindings, etc.
- Supports LSP, Code Formatters, MCP.
## Get Started
```sh
$ curl -fsSL https://opencode.ai/install | bash
```
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Lets pick the Hardest **Boss** of configuration in terminal world
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Neovim
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- <span style="color:green">✓ Modal based Text Editor</span>
- <span style="color:green">✓ Infinitely Customizable</span>
- <span style="color:green">✓ Faster than the GUI editors</span>
- <span style="color:green">✓ Use Programming Language (Lua) to design the Editor you want</span>
- <span style="color:green">✓ 2000+ Plugins</span>
- <span style="color:green">✓ Single Config, Run Anywhere</span>
- <span style="color:green">✓ Huge community</span>
<span style="color:red">But....</span>
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- <span style="color:red">[!] Neovim has a steepest learning curve in all software tools</span>
- <span style="color:red">[!] Hunders of Commands, Lua Configuration Hell</span>
- <span style="color:red">[!] Many developers spend months/years becoming proficient, and plenty give up.</span>
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**But again, that's in the past...**
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Demo: AI-HUMAN Symbiosis
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Using Agentic AI to Democratize the World's Hardest Text Editor
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Beyond Neovim
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- Dotfiles & Shell Setup
- Automate boring scripts
- Personalize your shell / git / aliases
- Quickly build tiny tools / one-off helpers
- Fun ricing your setup with zero-effort
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Make your workspace truly yours
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Most importantly: Have Fun!
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This is Insipiration - Not a Mandate
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- If terminal + Neovim + AI Agents excites you -> try it!
- if VS Code, Cursor, Zed or whatever feels better -> Keep rocking it
> Goal: Show how agentic AI removes old barriers, so more people can play with powerful tools if they want
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Questions?
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Thank You!
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![image:width:30%](./assets/qr.png)
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X: [@iamwaseem99]( https://twitter.com/iamwaseem99 )
GitHub: [@devwaseem](https://github.com/devwaseem)
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