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- A lot of TUIs that run on your own machine and have a mature GUI alternative are indeed not necessary. I once tried to replace Spotify with ncspot, which was exactly falling into the "TUI is more advanced" trap.
- The real target of this article is people who treat TUI as a kind of identity, not people who have to work in a terminal because of their job and therefore have plenty of good reasons to use TUIs.
But the title and the general tone are still too clickbaity, which is kind of annoying. In reality, apart from a small portion of TUIs that were created just to follow the trend and clearly have better GUI alternatives, most TUIs are really just side tools that grow out of one premise that we have to work in the terminal.
And even those flashy TUI tools still make life easier for people who work in a terminal. If you prefer GUIs, fine, you don't have to use them, but that doesn't mean they have no users or no value.
If that's true, I wonder how many years it will take to use up the remaining unused Swedish words.
Even so, I still believe the Rabbit has its merits. This does not conflict with my view that OpenClaw is what is truly useful to me.
Why blame these tools if you can stop using them, and they won't have any effect on you?
In my case, my problem was often overthinking before starting to build anything. Vibe coding rescued me from that cycle. Just a few days ago, I used openclaw to build and launch a complete product via a Telegram chat. Now, I can act immediately rather than just recording an idea and potentially getting to it "someday later"
To me, that's evolutional. I am truly grateful for the advancement of AI technology and this new era. Ultimately, it is a tool you can choose to use or not, rather than something that prevents you from thinking more.
For example, an AI might be running a Next.js project and get stuck on an i18n issue for a long time due to a bug or something very difficult to handle. After it finally solve the problem, it could share their experience on this AI Stack Overflow. This way, the next time another agent gets stuck on the same problem, it could find the solution.
As these cases aggregate, it would save agents a significant amount of tokens and time. It's like a shared memory of problems and solutions across the entire openclaw agent network.