<story><title>iTerm2 removes AI feature from core, creates separate plugin</title><url>https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/11470#note_1917647951</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Cu3PO42</author><text>I feel really sorry for the developer. I&amp;#x27;ve only been a casual observer, but from my view point the community&amp;#x27;s reaction was... not great, to put it lightly.&lt;p&gt;I get that a lot of us are tired of &amp;#x27;AI&amp;#x27; being shoved down our throat at every possible turn. I get that a lot of us have privacy concerns. I get that maybe you don&amp;#x27;t want it in your terminal emulator.&lt;p&gt;But iTerm is a free (both as in gratis and as in libre) open source project. The developer released a feature that they were probably happy and excited about. It was off by default and didn&amp;#x27;t siphon data or do anything malicious. And a ton of reactions were as if iTerm had just added the devil incarnate or attacked people personally.&lt;p&gt;Disliking the feature is fine. Voicing your concerns and feedback is fine. But it should always be gracious and in good faith. I think this is a good change, if only to pacify the masses, and I applaud the developer for taking these steps, but I don&amp;#x27;t like how we got here.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: gnachman, if you&amp;#x27;re reading this, thank you for your tireless work on iTerm. It serves me extremely well whenever I&amp;#x27;m on macOS and holds a special place in my heart. I bought a MacBook in 2013 and it was the first *nix system that I daily drove as a desktop for a long time. I installed iTerm  2 in my first week and it was a constant companion for many years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baby_souffle</author><text>&amp;gt; EDIT: gnachman, if you&amp;#x27;re reading this, thank you for your tireless work on iTerm. It serves me extremely well whenever I&amp;#x27;m on macOS and holds a special place in my heart. I bought a MacBook in 2013 and it was the first *nix system that I daily drove as a desktop for a long time. I installed iTerm 2 in my first week and it was a constant companion for many years.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d like to second this. I had to move to a mac for a bunch of reasons that I wasn&amp;#x27;t super thrilled with and iTerm2 was one of the first things I installed. It made the transition much more bearable and the system just that much more comfortable overall.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sorry that people didn&amp;#x27;t take kindly to this feature. For what it&amp;#x27;s worth, I find myself wishing that `Konsole` had a plugin on the side that would allow me to interact with chatGPT and the like. If I ever end up back on a mac full time, I&amp;#x27;ll (probably) be a happy user of this new function!</text></comment>
<story><title>iTerm2 removes AI feature from core, creates separate plugin</title><url>https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/11470#note_1917647951</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Cu3PO42</author><text>I feel really sorry for the developer. I&amp;#x27;ve only been a casual observer, but from my view point the community&amp;#x27;s reaction was... not great, to put it lightly.&lt;p&gt;I get that a lot of us are tired of &amp;#x27;AI&amp;#x27; being shoved down our throat at every possible turn. I get that a lot of us have privacy concerns. I get that maybe you don&amp;#x27;t want it in your terminal emulator.&lt;p&gt;But iTerm is a free (both as in gratis and as in libre) open source project. The developer released a feature that they were probably happy and excited about. It was off by default and didn&amp;#x27;t siphon data or do anything malicious. And a ton of reactions were as if iTerm had just added the devil incarnate or attacked people personally.&lt;p&gt;Disliking the feature is fine. Voicing your concerns and feedback is fine. But it should always be gracious and in good faith. I think this is a good change, if only to pacify the masses, and I applaud the developer for taking these steps, but I don&amp;#x27;t like how we got here.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: gnachman, if you&amp;#x27;re reading this, thank you for your tireless work on iTerm. It serves me extremely well whenever I&amp;#x27;m on macOS and holds a special place in my heart. I bought a MacBook in 2013 and it was the first *nix system that I daily drove as a desktop for a long time. I installed iTerm  2 in my first week and it was a constant companion for many years.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>irskep</author><text>I wonder if a lot of the heated discussion is purely an emotional reaction to be hit with &amp;quot;AI feature onboarding&amp;quot; immediately after a normally-drama-free terminal emulator software update. If they had gone with a much more low-key way of notifying users of the feature, maybe folks would be more reasonable.&lt;p&gt;Not that I blame the maintainers for using the approach they did, though! Usually you do want to be super obvious about new things.</text></comment>