Why MCP servers keep losing to CLIs once the agent gets a terminal
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Another day, another example of an AI Agent “running rogue” and doing something the human operator didn’t want it to do. The tl;dr is that Jeremy (Jer) Crane, founder of PocketOS, was using Claude to perform some routine DB maintenance. Claude then proceeded to delete the production database and all backups hosted at their cloud […]
Cline has extracted its internal agent harness into an open-source TypeScript SDK called @cline/sdk, the same runtime now powering its CLI and Kanban, with VS Code and JetBrains extensions being migrated. The SDK is structured as a four-layer stack — @cline/shared, @cline/llms, @cline/agents, and @cline/core — with native support for plugins, subagents, CRON scheduling, checkpointing, and MCP connectors. On Terminal Benchmark 2.0, Cline CLI scored 74.2% on claude-opus-4.7, compared to Anthropic's published 69.4% for Claude Code on the same model. Install via npm install @cline/sdk. Requires Node.js 22+.
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Some of the positions focus on AI-native development, data engineering and analytics, cloud-based engineering, and agent and model development as well as prompt engineering and new AI workflows.
My most exciting news of last week: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore previewed the first managed payment capabilities enabling AI agents to autonomously access and pay for APIs, MCP servers, web content, and other agents. Built in partnership with Coinbase and Stripe, it removes the undifferentiated heavy lifting of building customized systems for billing, credential management, and […]
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Attackers are posting fake macOS troubleshooting guides on Medium, Craft, and Squarespace. The goal is to make users run Terminal commands that install malware targeting iCloud data, saved passwords, and crypto wallets. Microsoft’s Defender Security Research Team published the findings. The campaign has been running since late 2025. It preys on Mac users searching for help with common problems like freeing up disk space or fixing system errors. Instead of offering a legit fix, the pages tell users to copy a command and paste it into Terminal. That command pulls down and runs malware. The misleading blog posts tell readers to copy a malicious command and paste it into Terminal. This command downloads malware and runs it on the victim’s computer. The technique is called ClickFix. It’s social engineering that changes responsibility for launching the payload onto the victim. Because