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I think it might loop back around pretty quick. I've been using it to write custom GUI interfaces to streamline how I use the computer, I'm working piecemeal towards and entire desktop environment custom made to my own quirky preferences. In the past a big part of the reason I used the terminal so often for basic things was general frustration and discomfort using the mainstream GUI tools, but that's rapidly changing for me.

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My main problem with GUI tooling is that keyboard use is an afterthought in too many of them

With CLI and TUI tools it's keyboard first and the mouse might work if it wasn't too much of a hassle for the dev.

And another issue with GUI tooling is the lack of composability. With a CLI I can input files to one program grab the output and give it to another and another with ease.

With GUI tools I need to have three of them open at the same time and manually open each one. Or find a single tool that does all three things properly.

Then it'll loop back again to CLI (or even direct system calls...) once human input won't be necessary anymore.

Maybe so! The way I see it going in the next few years is CLI tools remain valuable because they're useful to these coding agents. At the same time, users increasingly use GUIs which have been custom made or modified for them personally. We might even eventually get to the point where user-facing software becomes ephemeral, created on on the fly to meet the user's immediate needs.

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