Fast following is a reasonable strategy. Anthropic provided the existence proof. It’s an immensely useful form factor for AI.

> This isn't about quality products, it's about being able to say you have a CLI tool because the other ai companies have one

Anthropic's Claude Code is also installed using npm/npx.

Eh, I can't see how your comment is relevant ti the parent thread. Creating a CLI in Go is barely more complicated than JS. Rust, probably, but people aren't asking for that.

Writing it in Golang or Rust doesn't really make it better