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> you are free to edit those out

It takes much less effort for me to simply switch back to Terminal.app.

Hi! I'm someone who generally hates the "shoved-down-your-throat"ness of AI, and who got pretty upset at the MDN saga (which we do not need to relitigate here), so I think we have something in common. I'm not bothered by this feature though, because it's totally optional and unobtrusive. Can I ask why this is important to you?

This was specifically in response to the suggestion that one "edits" the app to remove the feature.

We litigated that? =)

How? how does it take less effort than... nothing... like its not enabled by default, and requires a api key if you even do want it, like the app is the same for everyone that doesn't want to use the feature lol

This was specifically in response to the suggestion that one "edit" iTerm to remove the feature.

Assuming you're unhappy with this (I am neutral on it), I'm actually curious: what do you lose by iTerm2 having an opt-in feature that you don't need to use? How do you replace all the lost features of iTerm2 that aren't in Terminal.app? And if there aren't any features you're losing out on, why did you even switch to iTerm2?

> what do you lose by iTerm2 having an opt-in feature that you don't need to use?

Trust. “AI” features are a trust rubicon. Once you add it, the assumption is that surveillance is now baked in.

Uhh, I don't understand. It's an open-source project with a ton of eyeballs on it. Are you saying that someone is going to sneak in a change to exfiltrate all keystrokes in a massively popular terminal app without anyone noticing? Is this risk new somehow?

Uhhh what? localhost to ollama is surveillance?

I guarantee this is the beginning of iTerm2 becoming a closed-source paid product. Oh, I'm sure there will always be an "open source" version of it, but we have all seen this movie before.

I fail to see how this is not a slippery slope argument. A feature was added to a GPL’d open-source project, and said feature relies on a third party (OpenAI) in order to work.

Why would you think this? There are plenty of open source products which intergrate with APIs, including OpenAI.

This was in response to the suggestion that one "edits" out the feature.

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