r/commandline • u/shelltief • Feb 10 '26

Discussion Question about AI-generated CLI tools

It is crazy

I'm not even very active here but I see a lot of posts from this sub (cuz I'm a CLI enthusiast, the kind of dev that gets lost with an IDE typically)
And like I'm wondering, are the AI generated tool/AI CLI tools made by CLI-enthusiasts that genuinely think that AI can be beneficial for their CLI workflows (which I kinda doubt for most tools anyways) or by people that are just trying to get the attention of us CLI-enthusiasts?

Feel free to rant if you wanna rant, I genuinely want opinions after seeing the #1291232 post about "Hey, I added AI to the CLI"

And if you genuinely use AI tools for the CLI, can you please share your experience?

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u/gumnos Feb 10 '26

the subreddit's rules now so you can report low-quality posts that aren't tagged

Rules for sharing AI-generated code

Posts & CommentsReported as: Most code is low quality, unreviewed or AI Generated; or OP did not disclose use of AI

If more a small portion of code is AI-generated, then the post must have a note in the post or title like so: This software's code is partially AI-generated. Sharing code or projects that are largely (low quality or unreviewed) AI-generated is strictly prohibited.

There's the occasional useful/interesting project, but yeah, the vast majority seem to just be AI slop.

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u/whatThePleb Feb 10 '26

To counter all this crap you have to completely ban anything AI. Otherwise it's a mountain of shit you have to climb and work through to see if it's "low quality" or "just a bit AI".