AI Composability and the Terminal

The author argues that command line interfaces are the second-best way to use AI, mainly because of composability. Coding has the strongest product-market fit of any LLM use case, and CLIs let tools like Claude Code run inside existing terminals and combine with other tools, scripts and agents. The article says Anthropic built Claude Code as a CLI so developers with different IDE preferences could all access the agent, and it lists workflows such as working over SSH, running parallel agents and using the CLI as a tool inside other agents. It notes that CLIs are not yet accessible to most non-developers, and that a better composable medium for AI has yet to emerge.