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AI coding agents made the terminal the primary surface again, and the tooling to build good TUIs finally got good at the same time

But why exactly are AI agents using the terminal? Can't they use accessibility tools to read GUIs?

Sometimes. Sometimes they can read screeshots, too.

But why waste tokens when bash (etc.) exists and many of the command line toools are configurable to what they emit when used?

I said TUI in the title, not CLI.

And

> and the tooling to build good TUIs finally got good at the same time

Was in the thing you replied to to ask

> But why exactly are AI agents using the terminal? Can't they use accessibility tools to read GUIs?

Which is what I replied to.