Until you can do the ten billion things that you can do via the CLI via the API programmatically then, no, the CLI is not dead. Maybe its days are limited, but dead it is certainly not. Even in Wi dows and OSX, sometimes it is more efficient to do things by dropping to the command line and this capability has not been removed by Microsoft/Apple. But I agree with the underlining sentiment underpinning this thread that we will start to do things in networking via API methods over the coming months and years.