As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, a lot of regular development work is engineering — not coding. Coding makes up a good bit, but even setting up a project with an IDE and getting the environment working is engineering. It means manipulating OS commands, etc. And because good developers treat their code as data too, they’re used to the idea of targeting it with tools and scripts outside of the IDE experience. This is where agentic command line interfaces (CLIs) come in.
Just Run a Terminal?
Large language models (LLMs) are better at the…








