I uninstalled three AI coding CLIs in a week. The model was never the problem.
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I tried a bunch of terminal coding agents last month. Some I reopened every morning. Some I uninstalled by Friday. What surprised me is that the ones I dropped were not worse at writing code. The model quality was roughly the same across all of them. The difference was entirely in how the tool show…
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- 2026-08-26 10:56 · DEV Community — AI
I uninstalled three AI coding CLIs in a week. The model was never the problem.