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Re:Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is retiring in spring 2026 by dididn284d on Monday December 01, 2025 @09:12PM (#46116564)
I think this is a naming problem. CLI is usually the name for the interface to an application. A Shell is the interface to the OS. Nonetheless agree with your post but this might be part of the difficulty in the discussion
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Re:Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is retiring in spring 2026 by buildbot on Monday December 01, 2025 @10:35PM (#46117206)
To be super pedantic, wouldn’t the interface to a shell itself be a Command Line Interface? ;)
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Re:Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is retiring in spring 2026 by dididn284d on Monday December 01, 2025 @10:45PM (#46117266)
that’s the ambiguity that I think is tripping the discussion up a little. Also the idea of a CLI/Shell/Terminal is also quite coupled to a system, rather than services. Hence the whole ‘web service’ hope to normalise remote APIs that if you squint hard enough become ‘curl’ on the command line

But the point is none of that is intrinsic or interesting to the underlying idea, it’s just of annoying practical relevance to interfacing with APIs today

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Re:Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is retiring in spring 2026 by projektfu on Monday December 01, 2025 @09:27PM (#46116661)
Wow, I now feel old.
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