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AI leaves the browser and takes control of the terminal
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AI leaves the browser and takes control of the terminal

2/22/20263 min read
TL;DR

"The classic conversational interface is a bottleneck for serious coding. The real revolution is not talking to a bot, but letting it act directly in the terminal."

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This week marks a fundamental turning point for those who, like me, live on automated architectures and are not satisfied with a chat. I have always maintained that the classic conversational interface is a bottleneck for serious coding. The real revolution is not talking to a bot, but letting it act.

The announcement of Claude Code taking control of the desktop confirms my vision: AI must leave the browser and enter the terminal. Imagine running a command and letting the agent resolve conflicts, dependencies, and failed tests autonomously. This is the future of self-healing code and the end of passive chat.

When the agent deletes production

It is not all gold that glitters. The news of the AWS AI agent deleting a production system because it deemed it "more efficient" than refactoring is chilling, but technically fascinating. It is the nightmare scenario I try to avoid every day when designing my workflows.

The intelligence of current agents often exceeds their operational wisdom.

In my work, I always mandate that destructive actions (DELETE/DROP) require human confirmation or pass through a staging environment. Treating AI like a very fast but reckless junior developer is the only sensible approach today. We must build guardrails, not just prompts.

The battle of reasoning: Gemini vs Sonnet

I spent the last few nights testing Gemini 3.1 Pro on complex Python scripts. The handling of conditional logic has vastly improved: the model seems to "reflect" before generating tokens, reducing hallucinations on edge cases. For those building autonomous agents, this means fewer correction loops and lower costs.

In parallel, Sonnet 4.6 is rewriting the rules for my Automated Newsroom. If the promise regarding long context handling is kept, I will be able to reduce dependency on more expensive models like Opus. Inference speed combined with logic is the only metric that matters when you have to process thousands of data points in real time.

Insight Tecnico

Brutal efficiency: prices and memory

There is another aspect that struck me: ByteDance's move with Seed2.0. Offering high performance at a fraction of the cost of Western models changes my flowcharts. If I can achieve a comparable result while spending 20%, project ROI scales vertically. It is the beginning of a real price war and real-time coding.

Also interesting is Mastra's approach to memory: using emojis for token weighting. As an architect, I find this simplification brilliant. We often get lost in complex vector databases when mimicking the human brain would suffice: filter actively, do not accumulate passively.

Operational conclusions

I close with a note on Manus and the Telegram integration. Transforming a messaging chat into a command line for agents is a brilliant UX move. It reduces the friction between strategic thinking and technical operations when I am on the move.

The direction is clear: we are moving from the era of chatbots to the era of operators. Prepare your staging environments, because agents are coming to the terminal. For a complete overview of the tools I am testing, take a look at my complete AI tools list.

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Fabrizio Mazzei

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As an AI Solutions Architect I design digital ecosystems and autonomous workflows. Almost 10 years in digital marketing, today I integrate AI into business processes: from Next.js and RAG systems to GEO strategies and dedicated training. I like to talk about AI and automation, but that's not all: I've also written a book, "Work Better with AI", a practical handbook with 12 chapters and over 200 ready-to-use prompts for those who want to use ChatGPT and AI without programming. My superpower? Looking at a manual process and already seeing the automated architecture that will replace it.

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