Simon Willison • 1/17/2026

Quoting Jeremy Daer

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The article analyzes a quote from Jeremy Daer on why using CLI tools is preferable to raw REST APIs for AI agents. It highlights benefits like improved accuracy for chained operations (pagination, rate-limiting), higher success rates with cheaper/faster models (e.g., GPT-5-nano), and reduced token costs compared to using complex models for API reasoning.

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Quoting Jeremy Daer

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