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Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by bananapub »

jsnell wrote: post #59

I find it strange how most of these terminal-based AI coding agents have ended up with these attempts at making text UIs flashy. Tons of whitespace, line art, widgets, ascii art and gradients, and now apparently animations. And then what you don't get is the full suite of expected keybindings, tab completion, consistent scrollback, or even flicker-free text rendering. (At least this one seems to not be written with n…

why is it strange? they're making it look slick and powerful and scifi and cool, as a - extremely successful - marketing gimmick.

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by mccoyb »

breuleux wrote: post #128
jsnell wrote: post #59

I find it strange how most of these terminal-based AI coding agents have ended up with these attempts at making text UIs flashy. Tons of whitespace, line art, widgets, ascii art and gradients, and now apparently animations. And then what you don't get is the full suite of expected keybindings, tab completion, consistent scrollback, or even flicker-free text rendering. (At least this one seems to not be written with n…

What bothers me is that what I like about terminals is the scrolling workflow of writing commands and seeing my actions and outputs from various sources and programs sequentially in a log. So what I want is a rich full-HTML multi-program scrolling workflow. Instead, people are combining the worst of both worlds. What are they doing? Give me superior UI in a superior rendering system, not inferior UI in an inferior re…

Say more about what you mean by "multi-program scrolling workflow", if you don't mind

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by r0dms »

I’ve been playing with Crush over the past few weeks and I’m genuinely bullish on its potential.

I've been following Charm for some time and they’re one of the few groups that get DX and that consistently ship tools that developers love. Love seeing them joining the AI coding race. Still early days, but this is clearly a tool made by people who actually use it.

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by ryanmcbride »

Trying this on windows after installing from npm and when it asks for my chatgpt api key, doesn't seem to let me paste it, or type anything, or submit at all. Just sits there until I either go back or force quit.

edit: setting the key as an env variable works tho.

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by teraflop »

mccoyb wrote: post #132
breuleux wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What bothers me is that what I like about terminals is the scrolling workflow of writing commands and seeing my actions and outputs from various sources and programs sequentially in a log. So what I want is a rich full-HTML multi-program scrolling workflow. Instead, people are combining the worst of both worlds. What are they doing? Give me superior UI in a superior rendering system, not inferior UI in an inferior re…

Say more about what you mean by "multi-program scrolling workflow", if you don't mind

I think what they mean by "multi-program scrolling workflow" is just what you ordinarily get in a terminal window. You run command A, and below it you see its output. You run command B, and below it you see its output. And you can easily use the scroll bar to look at earlier commands and their output.

The parent commenter seems to be asking for the same thing, but with rich text/media.

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by bewuethr »

dgunay wrote: post #130

Played with it a bit. So far it lacks some key functionality for my use case: I need to be able to launch an interactive session with a prefilled prompt. I like to spawn tmux sessions running an agent with a prompt in a single command, and then check in on it later if any followup prompting is needed. Other papercuts: no up/down history, and the "open editor" command appears to do nothing. Still, it's a _ridiculously…

There is history scrolling, you have to focus on the chat with tab first.
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