Comment by vineyardmike

I wasn’t a fan of the interface for Claude Code and Gemini CLI, and I much prefer the IDE-integrated Cursor or Copilot interfaces. That said, I agree that I’d gladly pay a ton extra for increased quota on my tools of choice because of increased productivity. But I agree, normal chat interfaces are not the future of coding with an LLM.

I also agree that the RL environment including custom and intentional tool use will be super important going forward. The next best LLM (for coding) will be from the company with the best usage logs to train against. Training against tool use will be the next frontier for the year. That’s surely why GeminiCLI now exists, and why OpenAI bought windsurf and built out Codex.