> Mainstream CLIs and developer tools can easily ship a native --compact or --json-stream flag tailored for LLM consumption.

Until they do, they won't soon , rtk, caveman, ponytail and many others are just trying to address every growing costs (for 2K org, its around 2.5M, for now), so these are trade-offs we are all know and adjusting, but unlike the author claims we know the trade-off well and forking these tools, benchmarking, verifying the output quality matches our needs and so on to make it work for us, so no blindly.

For solo devs, yes, they might not really need it, self hosting another model to save would be better option. But for orgs thats a spicy part.

Yes, its good that we see these articles are shedding some light but like we do with these tools, lets also consume these articles with a grain of salt.