<story><title>iTerm2 and AI Hype Overload</title><url>https://xeiaso.net/notes/2024/ai-hype/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eriri</author><text>I looked into the issue tracker and gosh, its getting so toxic there.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&amp;#x2F;gnachman&amp;#x2F;iterm2&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;11470&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&amp;#x2F;gnachman&amp;#x2F;iterm2&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;11470&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hiatus</author><text>With gems like this:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; +1 to the people who&amp;#x27;d like to donate 50$ for a version which does not send my input anywhere. Okay, previously I never donated the project. But use the iTerm2 for ~10yrs and would like to continue.&lt;p&gt;So, this person has been using iTerm2 for 10 years without paying, and would only consider donating if this feature is removed?</text></comment>
<story><title>iTerm2 and AI Hype Overload</title><url>https://xeiaso.net/notes/2024/ai-hype/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eriri</author><text>I looked into the issue tracker and gosh, its getting so toxic there.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&amp;#x2F;gnachman&amp;#x2F;iterm2&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;11470&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&amp;#x2F;gnachman&amp;#x2F;iterm2&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;11470&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrozbarry</author><text>I think this issue is actually two issues&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    1. A terminal shouldn&amp;#x27;t be able to ask some resource on the internet what to type and auto-execute it.
    2. AI fear&amp;#x2F;fatigue&amp;#x2F;???
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
I think point 1 is reasonable to an extent, but it should be taken in context. iTerm2 is a free app, and as far as I can tell, not even remotely required on any mac platform, since there is technically a default dumb terminal, which can be customized. I think the context issue is from the video demos I&amp;#x27;ve seen, nothing directly types into your terminal, it&amp;#x27;s up to the user to review&amp;#x2F;copy&amp;#x2F;paste the generated code snippet. The underlying tech has been in iTerm for a while, from the best I can see. Auto-fill also enables things like the 1password integration, and anyone can open a chatgpt client and copy&amp;#x2F;paste shell code from there in the same way the iTerm2 integration works.&lt;p&gt;I understand point 2, I have never cared for any AI hype, it has near-zero interest for me, and doesn&amp;#x27;t affect my work. Almost every editor has some capacity to ask the internet for data and paste it in, from AI or otherwise, and no one is really sounding a major alarm bell around that. You could argue there is a big push for these integrations to train models, but even that requires a key.</text></comment>