Battle of the AI CLIs: Jack Tests Them All

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The field of AI coding agent CLIs is crowded and getting more so by the day, and our co-host Jack has tried them all so you don’t have to. The big four are: OpenAI’s Codex, Anthropic’s Claude Code, Google’s Gemini Code, and Amazon Q, along with some lesser known CLIs like AmpCode, OpenCode, and (the already shut down) Anon Kode. After trying everything, Jack says Anthropic’s Sonnet models and Claude Code are still the best.

Google’s quietly been working on new LLM-powered web APIs that rely on Google’s Gemini Nano model to power browser features like language detection and translation, and writing and proofreading, and Mozilla is concerned devs will create apps based on Gemini’s behavior.

Less than two months after Figma’s big Config conference, it shared it's acquired OS headless CMS Payload. Continuing the effort to make Figma a central hub for digital product creation, Figma’s adding a CMS to the mix so marketers and designers can more easily update website content as needed.

Timestamps:

• 1:01 - Jack’s AI tool roundup
• 10:34 - Mozilla’s concerns about Google building AI into Chrome
• 19:16 - Figma buys Payload
• 24:22 - Firefox gets vertical tabs
• 27:15 - Jack’s macOS 26 experiment goes wrong
• 30:36 - Anthropic destroys millions of print books
• 38:06 - What’s making us happy

Links:

• Paige - Figma buys CMS Payload
• Jack - State of the AI CLIs: Codex, OpenCode, AmpCode, Gemini Code, Claude Code, Amazon Q
• TJ - Mozilla’s concerns about Google building AI into Chrome

Lightning News:

• Firefox v140
• Jack's MacOS 26 upgrade gone wrong
• Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Rock Paper Scissors novel
• Jack - Tamolitch Falls and Final Destination movie series
• TJ - Watkins Glen State Park

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