This was inevitable, I called this a few weeks ago [1]. It’s an easy way to increase revenue without making the models smarter, and lock you in harder

https://danthegoodman.substack.com/p/where-agents-converge

> This is marketed as competition. But it’s not. It’s a cartel. Each company gets its own protected territory, and consumers get no choice.

Starlink has me extra excited for exactly this: region agnostic competition.

Get rekt, telecom incumbents

> Don’t try to sell developers the stuff that’s fun, the stuff they want to build. Sell them the stuff they avoid or don’t want to take responsibility for.

I think a lot of people in devtools could learn from this right now

@claudecode

Because the model labs can RL against their own scaffold, which will be borderline unbeatable

With unified memory and such a strong os-hardware integration, one would hope that swap could handle this task

I had to close 3 ads before even half my screen was the article

And then it never was more than half…

This felt oddly ai-authored, like the kind of “brain dump then ask ChatGPT to sort it into a post”. Probably because of too many bullet points and bold emphasis

I think this is the argument for UIs - it should be self-explanatory since it's singificantly simpler than an IDE

> I think this is the argument for UIs

To quote The Godfather II, "This is the business we have chosen."

The most popular and important command line tools for developers don't have the consistency that Claude Code's command line interface does. One reason Claude Code became so popular is because it worked in the terminal, where many developers spend most of their time. But using tools like Claude Code's CLI is a daily occurrence for many developers. Some IDE's can be just as difficult to use.

For people who don’t use the terminal, Claude Code is available in the Claude desktop app, web browsers and mobile phones. There are trade-offs, but to Anthropic’s credit, they provide these options.

I used to think UIs would be better for agents, but I changed my mind: UIs suit traditional software very well because there are only X actions that can be performed - it makes sense that if you have an image converter that can take X, Y and Z formats and convert them to A, B and C then you should have a UI that limits what the user can do, preventing them from making mistakes and making it obvious what's possible.

But for something like Claude Code there are unlimited things you can do with it, so it's better for them to accept a free-form input.

The terminal is a pretty bad place to have free form input if you need a separate key bind to paste an image than to paste text…

Huh? Did you see the cheat sheet? Most of it is a UI of the terminal and shortcut variety, and much of it is exposed in other IDEs as a traditional UI.

not really, mostly its self explanatory, it has poweruser things that are discoverable within a few minutes of reading the help. Weirdly the cheat sheet is actually missing things that you can find inside claudes help like /keybinds .

This clearly AI generated website is such a turn-off.

I get that AI can be good at making websites, and someone might not care to spend a lot of time on it, but a website that looks like a slightly modified version of a generic "make an X landing page" from gpt-5.3-codex doesn't scream "I care about what I just made".

Just go super reductionist like planetscale did and have partially rendered markdown, don't put twinkling stars in the background

As the author... I somewhat agree :) But I really like synthwave and ever since I came across the design trend I wanted to use it somewhere. And I put twinkling stars on purpose, there's even shooting stars if you wait enough. I understand it comes across as generic AI slop, but this is an early project and it will evolve. I will work on a planetscale-style webpage and maybe I can add it as an option you can toggle on :)