iTerm2

I first learned about it from iTerm2's build process: https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/blob/v3.5.6/Makefile#L170 and https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/blob/v3.5.6/deps.sb

The correct response to false allegations followed by insults and threats is anything but to admit it. The software in question is a popular free and open source software that has more than a decade of trust. The AI feature fundamentally requires the user to actively engage with in order to use it [1], with no nagging or coercion whatsoever. In fact, the only people reminding us of its existence are the Mastodon mobs, not iTerm. The feature wasn't added out of pure hype either. It was likely inspired by user feedback [2], and the dev ultimately added it because it was useful for him personally [3]. Despite all of this, people are raging about unprovable nefarious motives and making claims about spyware, as if it's Windows we're talking about. They pretend as if it's maintained by some faceless for-profit entity trying to screw us over ins

Don't overlook the awesome "automatically bury session" option, which hides the "actual" iTerm2 window running the tmux control plane: https://iterm2.com/documentation-buried-sessions.html and this is the preference I mean: https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/blob/v3.5.2/Interfaces/Pr... I also have dedicated .ssh/config entries for ensuring that ssh connects directly to tmux: Host whatever-mux Hostname whatever RequestTTY yes RemoteCommand /usr/bin/tmux -u -CC att

Entering an API key doesn't immediately cause iTerm to start send data to OpenAI. That's a straight up lie started by people who actually tested the feature and posted their findings on the GitLab thread [1][2] about it. OpenAI integration is activated after you write a question to be sent to the AI [3]. It takes many clicking and typing to get to that point and can't possibly happen by accident. It's one thing to not like a feature. But to behave in the way people behaved is not merely ridiculous, it's wrong and horrifying. People came to the issue tracker from Mastodon looking to start a fight that was uncalled for, threw insults and lies, and fantasized about physically harming the dev [4]. When all they could've done to avoid the feature was to simply do nothing. [1]: https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/11475 [2]: https://gitl

Now you ignored everything past the first four words of what I quoted. It doesn't "meddle or leak" your terminal data. OpenAI integration only kicks in after explicit user action. Looking at the screenshots, it appears to only become active for the current terminal pane. https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/blob/master/images/Onboar... Also, iTerm is developed by an actual respect-worthy person who actually cares about this kind of stuff, not by an "AI overlord." It's unfortunate that you instantly chose to make baseless spyware accusations in public forums instead of supporting him for creating the software that you've relied on.

> iTerm 3.5.1 removes automatic OpenAI integration, requires opt-in This is an editorialized title. It was opt-in from the very beginning. Here's all the steps that was originally required: 1. Open settings, go to the General tab, click on the AI button. 2. Enter a paid API key 3. Close the settings 4. Click "Toolbelt" on the menu bar, and click on "Codecierge" 5. Click "Toolbelt" on the menu bar again, and click "Show toolbelt" 6. In the toolbelt, there's a textbox that you can type questions into. The textbox won't be shown if you didn't enter an API key. Only after submitting the question will the OpenAI integration be activated, and as I understand it, only for the current session. https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/blob/a3122c0100d8900a15cb... The initial implementation already took many many clicks to run. I literally had to do noth

If you're so paranoid about this possibility then just block it at the network level - heck, even whitelist IP ranges that you want iTerm2 to be able to connect out to and default deny the rest. Let's not blame iTerm2, which is a highly useful, amazing piece of software that many of us have relied on on every day for years and have never paid anything to use. If you really are so worried about the AI feature being part of iTerm2 then go fork it and strip the AI functionality yourself: https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2

I tried it but I get an error: "There was a problem with the AI query: Error from OpenAI: [] is too short - 'messages'" According to the docs it only uses that if the model doesn't begin tieh gpt- and uses an old API, so alas it doesn't seem compatible with ollama. Edit: here is the relevant part of the code: https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/blob/a196d31658a8d0aa2dc5... Looks like adding ollama support is really a matter of changing a few lines of code. Edit 2: Seems to be fixed in the next beta release: https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/commit/fcd212490626f1d8ea...

It appears to be configurable: DEFINE_STRING(aitermURL, @"https://api.openai.com/v1/completions", SECTION_EXPERIMENTAL @"URL for AI API.\nA ChatGPT API endpoint should be here. Note that this URL is only used if the model name does not begin with `gpt-` because those models used an older API."); https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/blob/a196d31658a8d0aa2dc5...

Have you used iTerm2? Saw the amount of work that's put into it? Checked how long it has been cared for, maintained, and continuously improved on by basically one person for more than a decade? All for free and no ads? The iTerm2 developer is a person you can actually trust. https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/graphs/contributors But all of a sudden you now have people up in arms about how a spyware of a feature was sneakily forced upon them, and be righteous about it. This is sad.

For macOS users, iTerm2 offers the exact same feature [1][2] since v3.5.0beta9 (Dec 19, 2022). Both Shelly [3] and iTerm use OpenAI under the hood. Here are several alternatives [4]. [1] https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/commit/7bcc4e0bedb22c4fd9... [2] https://cixtor.com/blog/iterm2-openai [3] https://github.com/paletov/shelly/blob/main/src/llm_service.... [4] https://github.com/search?q=terminal+chatgpt&type=repositori...