--- title: It's time for you to think about how an agent can use... description: A forward-looking take arguing that AI agents will increasingly interact with applications through CLI interfaces rather than web UIs, and developers should... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/it-s-time-for-you-to-think-about-how-an-agent-can-use-your-app-via-cli-in-the-future-none-of-us--offvq6bpi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: It's time for you to think about how an agent can use your app via CLI. In the future, none of us (including our agents) are going to want to log in to a web interface to do anything. Agents will to do everything via CLI + writing their own code. | daily.dev og:description: A forward-looking take arguing that AI agents will increasingly interact with applications through CLI interfaces rather than web UIs, and developers should... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/it-s-time-for-you-to-think-about-how-an-agent-can-use-your-app-via-cli-in-the-future-none-of-us--offvq6bpi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ofFVq6BPi.png og:image:alt: It's time for you to think about how an agent can use your app via CLI. In the future, none of us (including our agents) are going to want to log in to a web interface to do anything. Agents will to do everything via CLI + writing their own code. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- [Ryan Carson](https://daily.dev/sources/ryancarson) [Read on](https://api.daily.dev/r/ofFVq6BPi) Mar 02 • From x.com  Ryan Carson @ryancarson It's time for you to think about how an agent can use your app via CLI. 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