Terminal

“Our thesis here is that the best interface for launching agents is actually pretty similar to what traditionally has been like a terminal UX. You know, you want this like grouped output. You want the ability to seamlessly run commands.”

“There's also a generational divide where I would say the younger people, you know, younger than 25, their terminal seems old to them and they were much more inclined to use the stuff in the editor.”

“The bet here that we made was that GUI based computer use was going to be much slower to come into its own. Than terminal based use. And there's a few reasons for this. I mean, as I mentioned earlier, text is just the modality that works best with these models…”

“I feel like coding agents have been so much more effective than general purpose agents, and I think a large part of that is it just has access to the terminal, like you said, and that means it has access to everything that you've installed into your terminal.”