Are we past the point of no return? Does all software need to have AI features now? I know it's opt-in, but just knowing it's there makes me not want to use this any more.
All software where it makes sense, yes. AI/LLM are a tool, especially efficient with text, so having terminal integration will be useful to some.
Honestly if an AI can annotate some obscure command line errors with an explanation and a possible fix, I'm all for it. If an AI can help me generate jq filters, I'm all for it. If an AI can help me in any (non intrusive/obnoxious) way, I'm all for it.
It's ok to not like and not use AI features, but completely rejecting them altogether is a mistake.
Appreciate your response. In my opinion, I don't want my terminal to have AI integration. I don't like the idea of AI-generated code being a single key-press away from being sent to a remote server. Others may disagree with that opinion, which is fine too.
In iTerm's case, I like this ability to cmd+Y -> "start a static http server here" -> it responds "python3 -m http.server 8000" and I easily shift+enter to run it.
As opposed to alt-tabbing to my browser, opening an LLM (or google, yuck), asking it a question, and the copy and pasting stuff back into my terminal. That might be the familiar / old way of doing everything but it's not the pinnacle of workflows.
I know that was just an example, but if you're doing it that often, why not create a `start-static-server` script/alias? And if you're not doing it often enough to justify that, is the difference in workflow really significant?
Because that question can be swapped for 1000s of other one-off questions I might have over time, like "use find to delete all node_modules folders below this directory" or "use jq to extract the username key from each obj in a top level array".
