AI Coding Tools in 2025: Welcome to the Agentic CLI Era
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The piece argues that 2025 marks the start of an Agentic Era for software development where agentic CLIs—LLMs operating in loops with tool access—become mainstream. It outlines practical coding use cases such as data transformation, style and code fixes, code generation, and local project setup, noting agents excel in constrained, task-oriented work. The article explains the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and similar connectors that let agents use local tools and drives, and it stresses the need to limit agent access and scope with allow/deny lists and workspace boundaries. It also highlights parallel runners and isolated branches as important workflow patterns, and concludes that continued refinement will focus tools on the constrained tasks where LLMs currently provide real value.
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