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Re: iTerm2 3.5.0

#161

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It literally does exactly that, what made you think it doesn't? Or did you just assume and type a comment based on nothing?

I actually searched advanced options for "openai" but nothing there, honestly it should be a primary options. Anyway, it doesn't work with ollama's openai compatibility API.

it will work with the next release (and already works with the beta)

Re: iTerm2 3.5.0

#162
iTerm2 is still the best terminal emulator on macOS, thanks to the hard work by @gnachman. I've tried to switch to alternatives like Kitty and WezTerm several times in the past decade, but none of them beat iTerm2 in terms of stability, feature richness, and ease of configuration. While iTerm2 may fall short in rendering efficiency, compared to how well it performs in other aspects, that's a minor concern.

Re: iTerm2 3.5.0

#163
There are so many AI critics in the comments. It's a pity they ignore all the good features in version 3.5.0 and focus only on a small, completely optional feature.

Re: iTerm2 3.5.0

#164

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That's a lot of assumptions about users that are ignorant about OpenAI or anything AI related in general. I used iTerm2 for the last decade or so without any complaints, but seriously, sneaking in features like this into a minor version and without upfront communication is poor form (as would be something less sinister like a Google search engine or StackOverflow integration, stuff like this is entirely unexpected in…

Again, people using the word “sneaking”, are you sure you know what that word means? It makes absolutely 0 sense in this context. To work in tech and not have a surface level understanding of LLMs and the biggest player in the field, OpenAI is borderline incompetence in my book. You don’t need to be using it, you don’t need to like it, but you should be aware of it. All of that is off topic though, there are countles…

The tone, vascilating between condescension and brow beating, of your reply is atrocious. My take is that AI is the buzzword du jour much like fuzzy logic was. In any case:

  Should we remove tmux support because not everyone uses it?
tmux doesn't exfiltrate your data to third-party servers.

  I’ll take “things you won’t actually do for 100”
Wow.

Re: iTerm2 3.5.0

#165

A lot of the comments mention the AI inclusion from an LLM-is-everywhere point of view. I'm also a little confused about why behaviour like that is in a terminal rather than a shell ? To my mind I just want the terminal to render text and handle input, and then it's my shell's job to define behaviour of commands etc. I find that a super helpful distinction- what if you like iterm but want a different shell like fish…

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Re: iTerm2 3.5.0

#166
I write this as a top level to avoid targeting anyone specifically but also, my rage is so hot that I have to say it: I think this thread sucks and am appalled by most of the things people are saying.

AI is fine. iTerm2 is awesome. You are a bunch of ingrates complaining about living in an age of miracles and wonder.

Could things go badly some day, sure. Is it ok to have ethical concerns about where AI fits in, sure. Is it reasonable to whinge like this? Only if you are a dogmatic fool.

Re: iTerm2 3.5.0

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The comments in this thread are depressing, I expected much better from HN. The AI features are but 1 minor aspect of this release, they are optional, you can change the URL to point to a local LLM, yet people are pretending like all your data is going to be sent to OpenAI if you update. I’m not sure if people are being intentionally daft or are just not reading anything past the word “AI” (which, again, isn’t even l…

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…

If you work in one of those places, quit.
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