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This is why I predominantly use CLI tools where it makes sense. Two CLI tools are more alike than two AI tools, theh tend to respect the user and their intellig
by atoav 2y ago
This is why I predominantly use CLI tools where it makes sense. Two CLI tools are more alike than two AI tools, theh tend to respect the user and their intelligence more, there is no sign in, it works together with other software and it will work for decades.
I'd love if GUI applications were similarly stringent or even had the goal of creating an ecosystem, but they don't, they are competing against each others trying to grasp user attention, bending them to their wills, locking them in. Not all of them of course, but the mental overhead with CLI is much smaller.
- hello_computer 2y agoCLI presently selects for users with reading comprehension, who are a hard sell for trojan horses. If the great unwashed ever took a shine to CLIs, CLIs would become just as bad. You can already see a bit of this in PowerShell (i.e. marketing & telemetry).