
The Shell Switch
The Shell Switch: Setting Your Native Tongue The Veil When you open a terminal in VS Code, is it PowerShell blue? That default shell was chosen for you, not by you. The AI that’s helping you code assumes Bash. If your terminal doesn’t match, you’re not building. You’re translating. The Dross The AI speaks Bash. Every path it gives you, every command it suggests, every script it writes – Bash. When your terminal is PowerShell, every / becomes a \ you have to fix by hand. You’re spending mental energy on translation instead of on the problem. ...