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Re: iTerm2 3.5.0

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Is it just me, or allowing hallucinations into my terminal a line that I am not willing to cross? Also, it would make a lot of sense to have an option to use a local ollama instance instead--otherwise this just feels like a cool feature that seemed like a good idea at the time, and not something thought through where it regards privacy and likelihood of damage.

There's advanced setting for "URL for AI API" which I guess you could use for local (OpenAI compatible) model services. Since I only have Azure based OAI I can't use the commercial service anyway...

I would like to use LLM as a helper directly. I wouldn't enable it on main profile and user account, but in a separate profile with restricted account it can be useful. I already do copy paste from LLM, which is far slower than this new feature (though of course more controlled).

Re: iTerm2 3.5.0

#14
iTerm is such an amazing piece of software. It's one of the first things I install. Glad the settings dialog had a "donate" button tucked into the corner; did that straight away. The value for money is absurd.

Re: iTerm2 3.5.0

#15
I really just don’t want software to have these ai things in them. How long are they going to maintain it?

If they want to allow extensibility for the explicit purpose of Llm integration then why not just… make an API?

Re: iTerm2 3.5.0

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post #5

Is it just me, or allowing hallucinations into my terminal a line that I am not willing to cross? Also, it would make a lot of sense to have an option to use a local ollama instance instead--otherwise this just feels like a cool feature that seemed like a good idea at the time, and not something thought through where it regards privacy and likelihood of damage.

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Re: iTerm2 3.5.0

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post #8
post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(From the original) - The password manager can now use LastPass or 1Password rather than the keychain. Use the (⋯) menu next to the search field to configure it. I miss the text encoding menu in Firefox :)

No KeePass support, then?

On a related note it’s amazing just how much better the UX of 1Password is, compared to KeePass X, etc.

I used to not want to use 1Password or any other hosted password manager like that. But I had to start using it for work since a couple of years ago and they also gave me a free personal account for it and when I experienced how much better it was than everything else, I started using it and haven’t looked back since.

I wish an equally awesome, but completely local and completely open source password manager existed.

Re: iTerm2 3.5.0

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iTerm is a great program and I love it.

If there is one thing I could add to it, I really would like "IDE style autocomplete", like fig promised, and I guess that warp terminal or whatever it's called.

Right now when I press "CMD+;" it pops up an autocomplete style box, I would just like to have pretty much that but always on, and filled with suggestions for the command being typed, like an IDE or code editor with a language server.

I know I'd get a lot more use out of that than any kind of AI feature – but in the end it's a free tool and has served me well, I don't want to complain about it, I would recommend it to anyone.

Re: iTerm2 3.5.0

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This doesn’t answer my question about watching the terminal contents. If I ‘cat’ a file, is the file’s contents sent to openai?

When you open Codecierge in the toolbar sidebar, it warns you with this: > Everything that happens in your terminal while Codecierge is running will be sent to OpenAI. Don't send them confidential information! And when you check the box "Run commands automatically" it shows you this popup: > This lets an AI completely control your computer. It could delete your files, do something stupid or dangerous, or lead to the…

> "Run commands automatically" is hilarious.

Yeah they should make it so it mocks the user for attempting to set it to true and explain in select, direct, simple to understand words why that's a dumb idea and that obviously the user didn't read the disclaimer.

Re: iTerm2 3.5.0

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> A new AI feature in the Toolbelt, "Codecierge", lets you set a goal and then walks you step-by-step to completing it by watching the terminal contents What exactly is “watching the terminal contents”? Does this happen locally or is data sent to a third party? If a third party is involved, what data is shared exactly?

You can set a custom URL to use Ollama which is OpenAI API compatible. Llama3 8b runs quite fast for me on a M1 Max. I'll be making use of this feature I think (haven't tried it yet).
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