There are a lot of interactions on a PC where user inputs land in the wrong place.

Claude Code and Codex in their various avatars allow us to type the next prompt while the agent is still working and responding on the earlier one. But this constantly runs into a permission prompt from running session -- either interrupting or worse entering a response to the permission prompt unintentionally.

Even during normal prompting slash commands interfere annoyingly with normal use of the slash key (i use a slash to indicate a list of two or more choices sometimes when i write).

Permission popups and confirmation dialogs that appear unexpectedly and swallow our keystrokes, spacebar and enter key hits mid sentence have always annoyed me.

Laggy devices, and resource hungry sluggish UIs compound this problem.

Saves you a bit of movement on large screens, but since it jumps it doesn’t lead the eyes which makes is disorienting.

i thought that was genius, until i upgraded to vim-motif, which would instead move the popup to where your mouse cursor is

But yeah, it feels like somebody physically grabbing your hand and moving it.

Even major features in Adobe apps the furthest they go is those video popups rendered using webviews so they glitch into existence as a white box.