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> We're also addressing the most common papercuts of existing tools, such as making scrollback, selection, and scrolling all work natively.

Goes ahead and butchers the browser scrollbar.

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post #142

I’m sorry. I tried to understand what is this about, but I couldn’t. The title didn’t explain it. The description neither. I remember I heard a saying somewhere that if you can explain what you are doing in a few simple sentences, then is is this really something valuable?

The vision of having a shared interface for all work seems pretty clear to me.

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post #78

This doesn't seem like a niche that isn't filled. Am I missing out on something by still just using iTerm2 and tmux?

If you like terminals and tmux, can I suggest you spend a few hours playing with herdr? It clicked for me in a way that a lot of other orchestrators didn't.

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post #78

This doesn't seem like a niche that isn't filled. Am I missing out on something by still just using iTerm2 and tmux?

I've wondered this myself. I stuck with iTerm2 for a really long time but recently switched to Ghostty. Ghostty definitely seems to renders faster (I say "seems to" because I didn't benchmark or anything). I don't actually use a multiplexer. I'm not sure I understand the use case when most terminal emulators supports tabs + windows (like iTerm2 does). Or you could just launch multiple windows and use your OS's window…

Typically, the benefit of the mux over just more windows or tabs is the ability to detach sessions from a term and have them continue to run. But yea, the “split a term window into multiple terms” doesn’t have quite as much value in a world of lots of tabs. That said, you can do it under program control on the remote host, so it does save remote login overhead, etc. But for local, less value.

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post #144

Agent orchestrators are the IDE dream repackaged. IDEs never really took off, excepting lock-in/monolopolization (Visual Studio, Xcode). They never lived up to the grand vision of the likes of Alan Kay. IDEs of today are still basically just text editors with a file explorer. Agent orchestrators seem similar. The vision is grand but the implementation is just tabbed terminals.

I think they definitely have the IDE vision in mind and are trying to move off of terminals, based on two parts of the original article

> so you can close the application, reconnect from another device, and pick up exactly where you left off.

I think this is the remote IDE development dream that no one could quite get right, partly because there wasn't enough reason to run things on a 24/7 device. I think with coding agents that can run in the background this changes.

> Sessions can be accessed through the web and native macOS/iOS applications, and sharing a live session with other people is built in from the start.

I'd really like to point out that "Sharing a live session" is horrible UX for a terminal multiplexer because the terminal has to be the same size (# of rows/cols) on all viewers' screens, and some of these viewers may be on a phone and others on a laptop. Believe it, I tried myself and there's no good way around the problem.

What is interesting is that they added this sentence anyway. This tells me that their long-term endgame is not the terminal. They're most likely trying to build a GUI-based agent IDE and then eventually expand to other work (per their headline of being the "multiplexer for all work") as it all gets more and more agent-based anyways. Well, they're not alone in having that vision.

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post #124

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Bun and the Rust pre-release have continued to be open source; the pre-release isn’t exclusive to Claude Code but available to anyone to download and use. There hasn’t been any public motion to indicate they may close source anytime soon. This FUD is so easily fact-checkable that I’m genuinely confused at how it caught on

They inflamed an online programming language fandom. It's kinda like if they dissed BTS

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post #153

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> I think most people will agree that empowering the edgelord Shopify CEO is not going to improve most people's outcomes. This is another logical fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum > All you need to do is read his tweets to see that he should have less power (much less), not more I'd like you to make a real argument. What specific tweet of his implies he should have less power and why?

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> You made the unsubstantiated claim that people would want their right to vote stripped from them.

That wasn't a claim, it was a hypothetical.

> I do not think people want guys like this in power: https://xcancel.com/tobi/status/2081155797640171641

What is it specifically about this tweet that means him being in power would have bad outcomes?

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post #122

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I'm sure the people who would have their right to vote stripped from them would consider that malicious, and they would be correct. That's not democracy.

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Historical precedent (both recent and not) shows that concentrating wealth and then giving those wealthy few an inordinate amount of political power does not end well for those disenfranchised by this system.

It is not reasonable to give the benefit of the doubt on the basis of Lutke and his ilk maybe being benevolent dictators if given largely unfettered access to the levers of power.

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