Hot take but I think it's obviously true the moment you say it out loud, every serious AI tool right now is either a chatbox or a CLI, the chatbox people get something that talks back but can't actually do anything, and the CLI crowd gets real agent stuff but honestly how many people are ever going to touch a terminal, like that number isn't growing. Nobody's making terminals friendlier. That gap closes when someone gets agents running on the thing everyone already has in their pocket. Codex's remote execution thing is the first I've seen that seems to actually get this, they're not trying to pretty up the terminal, they're trying to skip it entirely, and Doubao in China is working on the same problem from a completely different angle, different market but same frustration underneath. And I keep seeing people treat mobile as the watered-down version but that's backwards, most people's real work is already on their phone, their messages, the side project they poke at on the train, if an agent can actually plug into that context and run things without you needing to know what a subprocess is that's not a lesser experience, that's just where everything already lives. I don't know who gets there first but I think that's actually the race, not who has the better model.
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