Toad: Your AI Coding Agent Deserves a Better User Interface • Will McGugan & Olimpiu Pop • GOTO 2026

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This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted. #GOTOcon #GOTOunscripted https://gotopia.tech Will McGugan - Creator of Toad & the Python Packages, Rich, Textual & PyFilesystem @WillMcGugan Olimpiu Pop - Technologist & Tech Journalist ORIGINAL TALK TITLE The Python Dev Who Built Rich, Textual & now Toad Just Redesigned How You Talk to AI Check out more here: https://gotopia.tech/articles/437 RESOURCES Will https://mastodon.social/@willmcgugan https://x.com/willmcgugan https://bsky.app/profile/willmcgugan.bsky.social https://github.com/willmcgugan https://www.linkedin.com/in/willmcgugan https://willmcgugan.github.io Olimpiu https://x.com/olimpiupop https://github.com/zroll https://www.linkedin.com/in/olimpiupop Links https://www.textualize.io https://www.batrachian.ai https://github.com/textualize/rich https://github.com/Textualize/textual https://zed.dev https://willmcgugan.github.io/toad-released https://willmcgugan.github.io/announcing-toad https://youtu.be/qmh7Uppd3x0 https://youtu.be/7OSkB4BCx00 https://youtu.be/Z5OrR99OpiY DESCRIPTION In this GOTO Unscripted episode, Olimpiu Pop sits down with Will McGugan — Python PSF Fellow and creator of Rich (4+ billion downloads) and Textual — to demo his sabbatical project: Toad, a slick terminal-based universal frontend for AI coding agents. Will's frustration was simple and justified: every major AI coding tool (Claude Code, Gemini, Codex) was built on top-tier models but wrapped in a UI that looked like it was designed

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