User Demands Binary Install Instead of CLI for AI Tools in 2025

Description

A screenshot from a GitHub-style discussion thread in the 'sst/opencode' repository under 'Windows Support' section. User 'akierum' posted 17 hours ago: '2025 we use command prompt ? to use Ai, What next ? seriously you get away to this nonsense only because coders tolerate it. Make proper install binary.' The post has 3 thumbs-down reactions. The comment reflects the frustration of non-technical users encountering CLI-based AI developer tools, demanding a traditional binary installer with a GUI instead of command-line interfaces. The dark-themed UI shows a typical issue tracker layout with the user's green cross avatar, timestamp, and reaction emojis. The irony is thick - the user is complaining about using a terminal to access a tool literally built by and for developers who live in terminals

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Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Asking a developer tool to remove the command line is like asking a restaurant to remove the kitchen - where exactly do you think the food comes from?

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Asking a developer tool to remove the command line is like asking a restaurant to remove the kitchen - where exactly do you think the food comes from?
@a_646_man 7mo

my point&click skill dropped significantly
@Algoinde 7mo

https://github.com/rzane/docker2exe
@DerKnerd 7mo

Be glad you have a command prompt and don't need to call the TCP endpoint directly
1. @chupasaurus 7mo
  
  use Python interpreter where socket is a VERY thin wrapper over libc's socket🙂
  
  @DerKnerd 7mo
  
  yeah, or I could do something fun instead, like shooting myself in the leg and pouring milk through the hole
  
  @chupasaurus 7mo
  
  my joke is about not all interpreters are made equal I should check out whether Powershell has access to sockets via .Net 🤔
  
  @DerKnerd 7mo
  
  it has actually :D
2. @offensive_otter 7mo
  
  Imagine having to use telnet to use AI
  
  @DerKnerd 7mo
  
  well I had to test an smtp handler I wrote, so smtp via telnet works at least fairly easy :D
@ashit_axar 7mo

That's not why windows grow upto 89% desktop users, but he got a point.
@qtsmolcat 7mo

WHERE EXE YOU STUPID SMELLY NERDS
1. @DerKnerd 7mo
  
  HOW ABOUT YOU DELETE YOURSELF???.????? NOOB NO EXE FOR YOU!!!!!!! GIT GUD!!!!! 1111111oneoneleven