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Re: iTerm2 3.5.0

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ashildr wrote: post #114
ogotai wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depends on the vantage point. Have you worked in any regulated industries? I can see iTerm joining internal software ban lists because of its AI integration (even if it's off by default). Security departments of these corps are constantly pleading with their staff to "please stop sharing corp data with LLMs, you're not allowed to do that", all the while staff feel under pressure to deliver faster, and reaching for wh…

It’s a terminal emulator and it has access to a local shell. Your scenario trusts the junior/temp with a shell.

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Re: iTerm2 3.5.0

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Post by soraminazuki »

soraminazuki wrote: post #107
oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These aren't mutually exclusive—it's perfectly possible to be fully aware that this version of iTerm introduces optional AI and be concerned about it. Dismissing these concerns as people "ignoring [the optional aspect] and writing all sorts of misinformation" is disingenuous and unfair. The most obvious concern is that it becomes non-optional in future, but there are plenty of related concerns ranging all the way up…

Have you used iTerm2? Saw the amount of work that's put into it? Checked how long it has been cared for, maintained, and continuously improved on by basically one person for more than a decade? All for free and no ads? The iTerm2 developer is a person you can actually trust. https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/graphs/contributors But all of a sudden you now have people up in arms about how a spyware of a feature was s…

Also, what does it even mean for this feature to become non-optional? It doesn't work without the user typing in a question. Do you seriously think that iTerm2 is the kind of software that's scheming to force users to use AI?

https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/wikis/AI-Prompt

Re: iTerm2 3.5.0

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Post by lr1970 »

Ghostty - a modern cross-platform very fast terminal written in Zig by non other than Mitchell Hashimoto of Hashicorp fame - is currently in private beta. Public release date is not set but seems to be in few months. BTW, getting into private beta is not difficult. I am using it as my daily driver and love it!

Re: iTerm2 3.5.0

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Post by soraminazuki »

thiht wrote: post #37
swiftcoder wrote: post #32

So what are the good Mac-centric alternatives for folks who don't want OpenAI snooping around their terminal? Warp already went all-in on AI and cloud, now iTerm headed down that same path. Alacritty? Kitty? Hyper?

> good Mac-centric alternatives for folks who don't want OpenAI snooping around their terminal iTerm, since they don't do that. Just keep it disabled. Unless you consider any terminal that lets you make network calls to OpenAI = OpenAI snooping around.

Oh no, you just "snooped" on GP by reading and answering their question.

Re: iTerm2 3.5.0

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Post by lkbm »

noname120 wrote: post #117
earthnail wrote: post #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.

Thanks a lot I never noticed it. The button points to [1] and I just set up a $3/month donation via GitHub Sponsors[2]. [1] https://iterm2.com/donate.html [2] https://github.com/sponsors/gnachman

Oh, nice! I've been sponsoring him on Patreon for years, but I'll switch over to to Github Sponsorship since that doesn't take a percentage.

Re: iTerm2 3.5.0

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Post by 7e »

Any latency improvements in this release? I love iTerm, but I switched to Alacritty because the speed is so satisfying.

Re: iTerm2 3.5.0

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Post by liveoneggs »

mostafah wrote: post #97

Genuine question from iTerm users: which of its many, many features do you use most and find most valuable? I have always had it installed, but Terminal.app from macOS seems to have been enough for me. Maybe because I’m always using tmux anyway and that covers some of iTerm’s advantages. But I’m still curious about iTerm.

I installed it for more colors but now I want to uninstall it because of this silly openai feature

Re: iTerm2 3.5.0

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Post by carimura »

AnonymousPlanet wrote: post #108
ogotai wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depends on the vantage point. Have you worked in any regulated industries? I can see iTerm joining internal software ban lists because of its AI integration (even if it's off by default). Security departments of these corps are constantly pleading with their staff to "please stop sharing corp data with LLMs, you're not allowed to do that", all the while staff feel under pressure to deliver faster, and reaching for wh…

Following that logic, regulated industries would be going after anything resembling Microsoft Office with a flamethrower. It would be product suicide for any piece of software, like e.g. Microsoft Office or Microsoft Windows, to offer even optional AI capabilities.

The mistake you're making is assuming that large companies make logical decisions.

Re: iTerm2 3.5.0

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Post by thih9 »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #10
thih9 wrote: post #9

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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…

> Don't send them confidential information!

Most of what I do in a terminal is confidential. I find it scary and also funny that in the age of data laws, privacy policies, data leaks, etc, someone thought this is an acceptable workflow.

Re: iTerm2 3.5.0

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Post by suchar »

mostafah wrote: post #97

Genuine question from iTerm users: which of its many, many features do you use most and find most valuable? I have always had it installed, but Terminal.app from macOS seems to have been enough for me. Maybe because I’m always using tmux anyway and that covers some of iTerm’s advantages. But I’m still curious about iTerm.

Tmux integration: tmux is running remotely in control mode and local iTerm2 is managing it. This way tmux panes and windows are mapped to native windows and iTerm2's split panes. Makes remote feel like a local machine
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