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iTerm2 and AI Hype Overload
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A green-haired green-eyes anime woman in a dark hacker nest with a laptop and a cup of coffee - Kohaku XL iTerm2 is the most popular terminal emulator for macOS machines. This "type the command for me" feature has caused a lot of buzz online, to the point where people I know are just flat out ripping out iTerm2 in favor of programs that don't have AI integrations in them. 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) instead of having OpenAI be the only option.
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