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by tiffanyh 37 days ago
Super helpful. If you don't mind me asking, why are CLI so popular for agent use - as opposed to just raw APIs?

Sorry if this is a naive question.
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jacobheric 37 days ago
I'm no expert. But I think it's the same thing that makes it easier to use for humans. So, `stripe projects --help` and then `stripe projects catalog` is super easy for me to grok and use versus reading some api docs and curling some endpoints.
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xena 37 days ago
AI models have better tool latching on a `bash` tool than they do MCP tools.
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tiffanyh 37 days ago
Would you mind explaining more. Sorry, I'm not following but find your comment super interesting.
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