The speaker said that strong terminal skills can make developers incredibly productive and that many of the best developers he had worked with were skilled terminal users.

“pitch and vision was hey there's this like tool that most developers use every day which you know the terminal that I think is like kind of hard to use tool hasn't really changed in a long time but if you get really good at using it you can be like an incredibly productive developer and like all the best developers or a lot of the best developers I've worked with that are really good at using it and so it's like can we build a better version of that as a product”