Why AI Developers Need a New Terminal

2026-07-28MighTTY Team6 min read

The terminal is still the same terminal

Over the past decade, code editors, CI, and deployment tools have changed dramatically, but the terminal itself has barely moved. SSH is still the dominant remote connection protocol — stable and universal, but built on 1995 design assumptions: networks are reliable, and packet loss just reconnects.

Three new requirements in the AI era

  1. Long-running tasks: Agents like Claude Code and Codex can run for tens of minutes. A single network hiccup kills everything.
  2. Check in anywhere: Your agent runs on the server; you can’t watch your laptop forever. Seeing progress from your phone beats everything.
  3. Stable on weak networks: Subway, coffee shops, cross-ocean VPNs — today’s networks are far worse than 1995.

What MighTTY does

MighTTY builds on Mosh’s session migration and predictive rendering to bring the terminal into AI workflows: sessions survive disconnects, your phone can take over anytime, and agent progress is always visible.

This isn’t inventing a new protocol — it’s taking a protocol that was great 20 years ago and rebuilding it as a product modern developers want to use every day.