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A well-respected terminal emulator for the Mac decides to slather on AI sauce, and most users are not happy. But there are others who are outraged that slathering AI sauce onto a product is even seen as a negative. Let's take a break from HN to take a look at the tortured souls on lobste.rs who won't let this aggression stand, man:
https://lobste.rs/s/7aglnr/psa_iterm2_now_has_chatgpt_integration
archive link in case mods decide to nuke it
Personal favs:
Hi, this is the internet, you must be new here.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Edit as a bonus, here's the HN discussion. Same situaton there, the promptfondlers are surprised everyone is mad
for people who thought this might not be related to the llm brainworms, the reasoning of the iterm2 author for inclusion of the feature (when promptedy by @gerikson@awful.systems) :
The latest beta has options to turn the shit off totally. The text mixes metaphors with wild abandon but I think it’s safe to say the promptfondling was not huge success
https://mastodon.social/@paulehoffman/112497241841185493
The whole debacle astounds me. Is there a more universally privileged application users frequently use than the shell? As a general rule it can elevate privs to full control far more aggressively than any other commonly used application, with minimal sandboxing at most.
Inorite? Even if there was the requirement of an API key being enabled that was only revealed after some time. If smeone says "my terminal has GPT now" of course your mind goes to it outputting
sudo rm -rf /
for some random prompt.Edit nevertheless I am thankful because I've had a lot of fun identifying promptfondlers on lobste.rs and pointing and laughing at them.