Kilo DevRel here. We built the Kilo CLI because other CLI tools either lock you into one AI coding model, or make you jump through hoops to switch. We wanted agentic coding in the terminal with the same flexibility you'd get from the Kilo IDE setup.

What makes it different:

- 500+ models (including everyone’s favorites from Claude, Gemini, OpenAI). Switch anytime - 5 specialized modes: Code, Ask, Debug, Architect, and Orchestrator (breaks down tasks and delegates to the others) - Parallel agents: spin up multiple instances on the same repo, each on its own branch - Session continuity: start in CLI, pick up in Kilo VS Code or cloud. Context travels with you

--parallel --auto for running multiple autonomous agents simultaneously is a favorite. It’s the same engine as our IDE extensions, not a stripped-down version.

Install: npm install -g @kilocode/cli

Also: open source, and contributions are welcome. Would love feedback on what's missing from your terminal workflow.

1000% this. Today LLMs are like enthusiastic, energetic, over-confident, well-read junior engineers.

Does it take effort to work with them and get them to be effective in your code base? Yes. But is there a way to lead them in such a way that your "team" (you in this case) gets more done? Yes.

But it does take effort. That's why I love "vibe engineering" as a term because the engineering (or "senior" or "lead" engineering) is STILL what we are doing.

Shitty AI bro here.

I would love to know if and how you disagree. I am (I thought obviously) making a jump here from her desire to make FLOW-MATIC human-readable. Also, I don't believe that AI will take developers's jobs, but I do believe a developer using AI will replace ones not using it...so I'm intentionally provocative there, yes.

It's probably true in our industry too - I'm sure that when people started using programming languages instead of writing machine code people looked down on them too.

This will be another abstraction layer that MANY people will use and be able to accomplish things that would have been impossible to do in a reasonable amount of time in machine code.

good think that those abstraction layer break all the time eg: javascript ecosystem

one thing about GPT users is they LOVE typing "npm install"

Would you use GitHub auth?

Yes. I would still prefer the old email/pass though, so I don't depend on a 3rd party being online, etc.

Author and Kilo Code team member here - yes your interpretation is what I meant...but to be fair as you mention it could be read multiple ways.

Let's be fair - I made it intentionally a little provocative :)

Haha I'm glad to hear it, because I do the same of course.

What I might not have mentioned is that I've spent the last 5 years and 20,000 or so hours building an IDE from scratch. Not a fork of VSCode, mind you, but the real deal: a new "kernel" and integration layer with abilities that VSCode and its forks can't even dream of. It's a proper race and I'm about to drop the hammer on you.

Author and Kilo Code team member here - this is a much better explanation of what I mean. And honestly, it's a quick phrase I've been using that is shorthand really for THIS much better-written take.

Kilo Code team member here

Would love to chat about integrating the models into Kilo Code if you’re interested

You can contact me at brendan [at] kilocode [dot] ai

I wonder if Cloudflare's new plan for blocking AI from scraping the "real" sites...

You wonder if the plan is (or does) what?