a year ago, the rise of Cursor made me feel a sense of loss. it meant I'd have to give up vim and all my favorite CLI tools if I wanted to keep up with the AI frontier but instead the opposite happened. CLI's are now stronger than ever 1. the best agentic frameworks (e.g. claude code) target the CLI because of the diversity of tools it has access to 2. almost any question related to the install/configure/debug of CLI tools can now be one‑shot by LLM's. hours of googling no longer needed, learning curve is now flat 3. copilot works really well in vim 4. AI-powered CLI tools like @simonw's llm or @willmcgugan's toad give new ways to interact with models directly from the CLI 5. building CLI tools is easier and more expressive than building plugins for Cursor. so most of the future AI tooling innovation will probably happen on CLI's