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> To allow developers in restrictive but technically incompetent organizations to continue to use iTerm2

I mean sure it was a brash way of putting it but he's not wrong. I contract with an org that basically shuts off access to anything that is in any way related to AI, we can't even visit the OpenAI website on our computers. If this feature was part of core iTerm2 then 100% they would have banned the use of iTerm.

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People really underestimate how much time is available to qualify whether a feature that on paper that sounds problematic is benign or functionally helpless without $XYZ other things by a security team. Saying use MDM to 'fix' it is dev time they might not have, and the only ethical thing they can do is remove the new unknown risks from their list of risks.

Much like your SLAs are not my SLAs your risks are not my risks. iterm2 inserting a mechanism to talk to a new class of component is not a minor change.

So they're going to take away MS Office, Windows, Google and Bing too are they? With iTerm it's not even using AI unless you give it an API key, so the whole thing is a storm in a teacup.

Microsoft knows its customers, and presumably provides a method for enterprises to nuke the 'AI' features. A lot of companies absolutely would not adopt an Office update with mandatory LLM.

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