AI Power Tools: 6 Ways To Supercharge Your Terminal
InfoWorld, December 11,2025
With something for everyone - whether you love the command-line or hate it - AI-powered shells have arrived.
The command line has always been the bedrock of the developer's world. Since time immemorial, the CLI was a static place defined by the REPL (read-evaluate-print-loop). But now modern AI tools are changing that.
The CLI tells you in spartan terms what is happening with your program, and it does exactly what you tell it to. The lack of frivolity and handholding is both the command-line's power and its one major drawback. Now, a new class of AI tools seeks to preserve the power of the CLI while upgrading it with a more human-friendly interface.