🔧 I Made My Terminal 7.5x Faster by Deleting the Tools Everyone Tells You to Install

My shell took 2 seconds to start. Then I realized an AI agent was paying that tax hundreds of times a day.


For fifteen years the advice was settled: install oh-my-zsh, add some plugins, get autosuggestions and a pretty git-aware prompt. It made the terminal nicer to sit in front of. That assumption — a human, sitting, typing, one command at a...