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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

#41

As soon as a tool adds pricing, price increases or adds AI that's when it begins to be enshittified. Why does this happen mostly?

Yep, out of precaution i've never used their sync infrastructure, which I guess was reasonably cheap to run, but the moment you add LLMs to the mix it is obvious that they are in for the free VC money and are soon going to need a lot of investment to keep the lights on.

It's MIT licensed software, Noone will turn off lights. Community can take over or fork.

Re: Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell

#42
post #7

Hmm 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)

not zsh .. plugging my bash script [1] (and gnome task bar UI) - to start a gnome terminal with a different named history file. [1]: https://github.com/appsmatics/gtsh-hist

Re: Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell

#43

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.

And my take! A fork of fish where any command that starts with > or a capital letter is fed to $fish_llm_command: https://github.com/breuleux/fish-shell. With Claude's help, that took all of 30 minutes to make.

Re: Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell

#44

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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

So to be clear. You have no tangible complaints about the software or its quality, but you are dismissing it because of the potential for poor quality, because AI was assisting?

Re: Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell

#45
post #17

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what does zellij offer that tmux doesn't? I love tmux and haven't had a reason to switch for a while, but have heard these new Rust based terminal tooling get really popular.

A ton more conflicting keybindings. I switched away from tmux a year or so ago due to one crash I kept getting, but thinking of going back. Really miss the simplicity.

It's hard to use in so many apps unless you lock the keyboard.

Re: Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell

#46
post #5

Why does every tool on the face of earth try to add AI features ? Good tools are simple and orthogonal. If you want AI, there's already plenty of other tools doing it probably better. I'm overall fairly disappointed by this announcement. This IMHO doesn't bode well

If you want VC money you need to put an AI spin on it.

Re: Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell

#47

The 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.

I've always felt this fullscreen was too much for actual use. Eager to try it out.

Re: Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell

#48
post #8
post #7

Hmm 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 tried atuin and then switched back to fzf[0]. It's less features but that's not necessarily a negative. [0] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

Fzf doesn't let you sync your shell history, though. I self-host an Atuin server so that I can share that history across my various machines.

Re: Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell

#49

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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.

And this is bad why?

Re: Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell

#50
post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what does zellij offer that tmux doesn't? I love tmux and haven't had a reason to switch for a while, but have heard these new Rust based terminal tooling get really popular.

If all you need is basic splits, sessions, and some simple templates/layouts (and like the convenience of knowing that tmux is widely available, and often installed by default) then you're fine to stay on tmux. Zellij can do things like floating windows, contextual keybinding guidance (helps learn everything that can be done), and a more complex layout schema. You can disable all the UI eye-candy and switch to tmux-s…

Wait, tmux doesn't have floating windows? I really thought it did...
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