> I find it strange how most of these terminal-based AI coding agents have ended up with these attempts at making text UIs flashy.
Its next gen script kids.
Its next gen script kids.
I 100% unironically believe we're better off more script kiddies today, not fewer.
I fear that todays kids are too compliant on everything; the script kiddie ethos at the time still wasn't primarily clear fraud, just chaos. Which, yeah, I think we could use a little of that now.
I was a script kiddie, I exploited games too when I was a kid, and so on.
Flashy stuff for the terminal it's not new. Heck, in late 90's/early 00's everyone tired e17 and eterm at least once. And then KDE3 with XRender extensions with more fancy stuff on terminals and the like, plus compositor effects with xcompmgr and later, compiz.
But I'm old fashioned. I prefer iomenu+xargs+nvi and custom macros.