atuin ai kinda reminds me of https://github.com/Myzel394/zsh-copilot (yes, that's by me :P)
And reminds me of my take: https://github.com/micahbf/halp
Excited to use atuin ai though, especially as it gets more features.
Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell
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Re: Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell
#32Hmm might be great for some. I’m a Unix philosophy guy, one tool for one job. So far atuin was fine to be a better search history. Now it might be time to look for simpler alternative. Any suggestions? (I’m on zsh)
I have to ask -- why? Atuin has not gotten any worse at its core history search functionality. All of the new features are entirely opt-in. Why switch?
Re: Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
This part: > On top of that, we integrate a dataset powered by man pages and command outputs to ensure you get the correct command first. Also makes it sound like they're "providing that dataset", rather than generating that from the users computer. Wouldn't that mean it's potentially a mismatch between various versions of the software available? Not to mention some OSes will have a different version of some software…
There is no way is it not generated on user computer. "get the correct command first" and "shipping a [external] dataset" are incompatible.
The Data Privacy paragraph would suggest otherwise.
> By default, Atuin AI knows nothing about your machine, other than the operating system and shell. This is the bare minimum required to generate a decent shell command.
> It will soon be able to ask you for access to more data - such as the current directory path, contents, git status, etc - but you must give permission first. This will happen in a similar way to existing agents, and be configurable to an even finer degree in your config file.
Re: Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s optional- you can choose to opt in or not.
Its also the Repo. There's a lot of AI-guided commits. I'm all for using AI in a reliable and safe environment, but letting Claude steer just leads to garbage
I took a look at the repo, but i didn’t see any garbage commits / evidence of sloppy vibe coding.
Care to elaborate? Also, don’t you trust that an author knows what they’re doing with AI in the same way as trusting them with their regular code writing skills?
Re: Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell
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Re: Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s optional- you can choose to opt in or not.
Its also the Repo. There's a lot of AI-guided commits. I'm all for using AI in a reliable and safe environment, but letting Claude steer just leads to garbage
I’ve read and used some of the author’s software. I trust them to make good judgement of using AI.
Re: Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s optional- you can choose to opt in or not.
Its also the Repo. There's a lot of AI-guided commits. I'm all for using AI in a reliable and safe environment, but letting Claude steer just leads to garbage
Using AI to code doesn't automatically mean bad code. Although I suspect the majority of AI code will be subpar.
Re: Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell
#38The PTY proxy looks pretty neat! Excited to give that a try.
Losing some of the scrollback was a minor nuisance that I kind of lived with until now.
Re: Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right, though looking at the release notes it seems like the AI part at least is opt-in... for now.
For now. But looking at the repo, they're already having commits done by claude.
I looked at the repo and couldn’t even find an example, so it can’t be that many of their commits. But also: this is ridiculous. Whether the commit appears as done by Claude or not is a setting you can change. If they turned it off, you’d never even notice.
These are great developers and they’ve built an incredible tool. I use it a hundred times a day. It is very odd and dogmatic to think that because you saw a commit authored by Claude, whatever skills and qualities let them build something so good are now being thrown out.
Edit: I found one: https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/pull/3231
Please, tell me where the bad code is in that PR. I see 200 lines of extremely straightforward Rust and 500 lines of tests for it.
Re: Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell
#40Hmm might be great for some. I’m a Unix philosophy guy, one tool for one job. So far atuin was fine to be a better search history. Now it might be time to look for simpler alternative. Any suggestions? (I’m on zsh)
What here takes them over the complexity threshold?