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There is a bigger story here - who uses iTerm2? It's gotta be like 95% developers, right? If your most technically capable users, who are usually the MOST exci
by Hasu 2y ago
There is a bigger story here - who uses iTerm2? It's gotta be like 95% developers, right?
If your most technically capable users, who are usually the MOST excited about new tech, are the people who are ready to burn down the world to stop you from adding AI features, what do you think normal people think?
I feel that, without several very major breakthroughs in the next few years, we're more likely to hit another AI winter in the 2030s than achieving AGI.
- thiht 2y agoDon’t confuse the vocal, insufferable minority with the silent majority (who either doesn’t care, mildly enjoys, or embraces AI features)
- orangesite 2y agoI think you underestimate the size of the silent insufferable minority.
- thiht 2y agoIt’s not insufferable if it’s silent. In the case of iTerm, the reaction of the vocal minority was atrocious, and completely entitled towards an amazing open source maintainer
- Hasu 2y agoAmong devs? That may well be the silent majority. Among normies? I don't think so.
- hobofan 2y ago> what do you think normal people think? They mostly don't. The most common objections to AI that come from the dev community are: privacy; IP rights involved in training data (and how it fucks over individuals) The general public almost exclusively judges the features that are handed to them in products based on their utility and not the above concerns, so they will always be less critical overall.
- dcow 2y agoIt’s abundantly clear from participating on the issue tracker that these weren’t “real developers” commenting. They were hateful people. The result of all this BS is a less secure implementation (separate plugin with weak IPC guarantees—I know first hand as I was one of the people trying to make sure that this new plugin direction had at least a modicum of security, despite disagreeing with the direction). No actual security or compliance people were outraged, because all their tooling is sufficient to properly manage iterm2 in regulated environments etc. etc. and no part of any security/IT professional’s or compliance officer’s security model depends on how many different binaries an application is split into. It was all hyperbolic misguided rage to the point of being harmful to the actual security posture of the app nonsense at its worst.