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I think people are just exhausted with the non-stop hype/frothing over AI and how hallucinating stochastic parrots have to now be stuffed into anything and everything, fuck all if it makes sense or if it’s even safe to do so. It just feels like every company / developer is racing tripping over themselves to scream “ME TOO!” with AI.

I prefer Apple’s built-in Terminal but even I’m wincing at this new “feature” being included in iTerm2.

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I agree about the trend to stuff AI in everything. This one feels legitimately useful though? One hot key away from asking how to write a command in plain english is kinda nice.

Honestly iTerm has always been loaded with features that of dubious usefulness. They all tend to be useful to someone though. This is just another one on the list.

I think the biggest failure here was the way it was communicated. Extremely ambiguous about WHAT it actually does and any privacy concerns.

I’m not anti-AI in general. I think there it has immense potential for benefiting humankind just as there is immense potential for harm and misuse, much like nuclear power.

I just can’t recall any other product or tech that has so many executive types and techbros frothing so intensely at the mouth and desperate to shoehorn it into everything like this.

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