The shift
For decades, development meant one thing: translate intent into instructions, precisely.
Every bracket placed. Every function named. Every edge case handled. The craft was in the correctness.
That's changing.
AI agents can write the code now. Not perfectly—but well enough that the bottleneck has moved.
The question is no longer "can you express this logic?"
It's "can you shape what emerges?"
Development is becoming a craft of direction, not dictation. Iteration, not instruction. Taste, not just technique.
We call this sculpting.
The tools haven't caught up
Today's development environments were built for the old model—writing code, line by line, file by file.
But sculpting requires different tools: ways to observe what's being built as it's built, to annotate, adjust, and refine, to document the evolution, to work with the AI, not just through it.
That's what we're building.
dterminal is a devtools platform for the age of AI-assisted development.
We don't build AI tools. We build tools for developers who build with AI.