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correction: iTerm2 is open source
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A lot of it boils down to having this "shoved down their throats". It's the
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~~A lot of it boils down to having this "shoved down their throats". It's the
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fact that it's being added to a tool without the user having the _agency_ to
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decide if they want it to be added or not. There's something that can probably
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be said here about programs like this likely needing to be open-source so that
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these things can be caught and stopped sooner, but that's an entirely
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different conversation.
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different conversation.~~
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EDIT: an earlier version of this post assumed that iTerm2 was closed source. It is not. I apologize for the error. Here is an amended version of the paragraph:
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A lot of it boils down to having this "shoved down their throats". It's the
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fact that it's being added to a tool without the user having the _agency_ to
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decide if they want it to be added or not. That being said, [here is the commit that added the AI feature in question](https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/commit/7bcc4e0bedb22c4fd90ae7934fbbce3268a71e11). It's apparently been in development at some level for two years or so. I guess it predates most of the AI hype that's been going on lately.
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I get why people wouldn't want this in their lives, I really do. I think that one of the greatest errors that was made with putting this in iTerm2 was making a big show of it, and by not letting you use local models (such as with [Ollama](https://ollama.com)) instead of having OpenAI be the only option.