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JGPT was released roughly three years ago, and in that time, we've gotten lots of

different

ways to talk to AIs, like Google Gemini, Perplexity, and Cloud.

Most of these can

run in a number of different platforms, like your phone, a website, or a

downloadable app.

But the terminal can feel a bit awkward to use with complex commands.

So you may be wondering,

why would anyone want to use a terminal tool like Cloud Code instead of a website?

I have the chatbot, web version of cloud, and our terminal side by side.

The chatbot certainly has some advantages.

It's an easy to use interface with lots of built-in tools,

but it also has a lot of limitations and disadvantages.

Let's say I want to perform some analysis on birth data from this website.

I've taken the time to download the data to my local hard drive,

and I want to do some AI analysis.

But the problem is these files are huge.

There's two files here that are almost five gigabytes in size and even some of

the others

are more than 30 megabytes.

I want to ask each one of these tools to give me some insights

into key findings from the data a typical report might have missed and also if it

can publish this

as an artifact.

The problem is with the size of these files.

With chat you can only upload 30

megabytes maximum per file and up to 20 files per chat.

About the only file that I could load into

the web version of Cloud is this user guide, which is just an index of the rest

of the files.

And that's not going to be very useful.

A CLI tool like Cloud Code doesn't upload files at all.

It reads directly from your local file system, and you can start it in the folder

that you're

working with.

With Cloud, you have no file size limits, no file count limits, no upload or

download step.

It can write and modify and not just read your files.

In addition to that, it

it can run any local app or process.

When it's done, it's going to generate

an analysis of the document that gives me some unique insights.

And just like with the website, it

can give me fantastic dashboards with detailed analysis

of the information in a visual form.

Even if the chatbot could, think of how long

it would take to upload a couple of five gigabyte files.

And then, if you wanted to do some processing on those,

how long it would take to download them back.

and a CLI tool like Cloud can do a lot more.

I'm gonna say that the folder is getting messy,

so I'm gonna ask it if it can organize these files for me.

It's proposing a file structure,

and it will then organize the files.

It can write code, create automations, and a lot more.

The reason the terminal is so powerful

is because it isn't encumbered by interfaces.

It's like getting a box of Lego parts

versus a completed toy.

That's why so many professionals are using CLI tools,

even though it does require a bit of technical knowledge.