alt Hacker NewsI dont want "agent-native CLIs" to proliferate because I'd rather we design CLIs for human use and programmatic (automation) use first. Agents are good at vomiting json between tool calls, I am not, and never will be.
Too many tools stray so wildly from UNIX principles. If we design for agents first we will likely see more and more of this.
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alchemist1e9 • yesterday at 8:25 PM
It’s also likely that agents would also be better if they didn’t deal with json vomit either. I’m optimistic that agent frameworks will eventually come full circle and realize concise teletype linear CLIs aka old school UNIX is actually very effective and efficient for agents as well as humans!
The point IMO in "agent-native CLIs" is to make them match the statistical average.
Let the Agent use the CLI and if it guesses the wrong option, you make that the RIGHT option.
Every time it doesn't guess something right, you change it.