becuase devs stop coding by hand and start prompting AI even for smallest of tasks, for example "hey codex, check grafana alerts and tell me x, y, z" instead of navigating it by hand and figuring out in grafana UI
Yes. Because terminal is a universal interface and this is more convenient.
This wouldn't generate more lines of git tho, unless if they are committing markdown documents of everything. With images. Which... Why? Why be so ludicrously wasteful?
So the information can be easily read by the ai agent in the future. See it as a form of indexing.