Without all thw unnecessary headings, "color", and constant "Let. That. Sink. In."-esque recaps this would be 2 paragraphs. Just let it be! Readers don't need the slop.
I hate hate hate the style of writing LLMs make.
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#22I don't know that I have ever understood a reason to leave the native terminal included with any given OS, particularly after the Windows modernization pass in recent years on the terminal.
Splits. And tabs. But mostly splits.
Nothing tmux and/or a decent window mangers wouldn't fix. But Macos.
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#23I don’t use MacOS or Claude Code, but I do use Kitty terminal on Linux, which the author suggests has the same issues that plague him using Ghostty. Kitty is a magnificent piece of software that has radically enhanced the interface between me and my computer. And it does this while consuming negligible resources.
What does it do for you that, say, konsole, gnome-terminal or even xterm wouldn't?
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same. Need multiple terminals visible at once? New window. Need a few separate sessions? New tab(s). All the bells and whistles people have shown me over the years... it never even gets close to making me think "oh yea, that's better than basic tab/window management and the terminal app that comes with my OS".
That requires a good window manager, which macOS does not have.
For the few times a month I need to have two windows/panes visible at the same time, I take five seconds positioning and sizing them then move on.
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#25The issue isn't the terminal. The issue seems to be that Claude is using React to render to that terminal at 60FPS like a goddamn video game Vibe coding is soooo awesome! And people thought that Electron was a resource pig. You ain't seen nothing yet.
Vibe coding is unleashing man-made horrors beyond human comprehension on the world.
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#26This, among many other reasons, is why I still use Terminal.app. I switched to iTerm for true color, but when Tahoe added it to Terminal.app- I switched back.
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#27The issue isn't the terminal. The issue seems to be that Claude is using React to render to that terminal at 60FPS like a goddamn video game Vibe coding is soooo awesome! And people thought that Electron was a resource pig. You ain't seen nothing yet.
Have they not discovered event based rendering yet? Something changed, render! Nothing has changed, don’t render anything and keep the previous frame.
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#28Without all thw unnecessary headings, "color", and constant "Let. That. Sink. In."-esque recaps this would be 2 paragraphs. Just let it be! Readers don't need the slop.
Can't we just normalise publishing whatever you put into the LLM instead? I'm sure the author typed things into their favourite AI assistant that regurgitated that long form, LLM-speak style version. I'm sure the original prompt has all the relevant content and was a lot more pleasant to read.
Can't wait for this style of prose to become an incredibly embarrassing faux-pas.
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#29Fucking AI slop
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same. Need multiple terminals visible at once? New window. Need a few separate sessions? New tab(s). All the bells and whistles people have shown me over the years... it never even gets close to making me think "oh yea, that's better than basic tab/window management and the terminal app that comes with my OS".
That requires a good window manager, which macOS does not have.
use tmux.