thoughtfulchris (u/thoughtfulchris)

thoughtfulchris commented on The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now charm.land/blog/v2/... · Posted by u/atkrad

TheDong · 7 days ago

You know what's even easier for AI agents to use than TUIs? CLIs.

My experience has been that agents suck at using TUIs, and are good at using CLIs. I would argue that agents are a reason that TUIs might die in favor of CLIs.

thoughtfulchris · 7 days ago

I agree, agents struggle with TUIs. I do think this is easy to fix though (here's an interesting approach: https://github.com/remorses/ghostty-opentui). I think agents will have much better luck with TUIs than browsers.

The more interesting scenario IMO is having apps that are both TUIs AND CLIs where the agent uses the CLI but can pause and show the user a TUI for complex tasks where the user needs to input something.

thoughtfulchris commented on The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now charm.land/blog/v2/... · Posted by u/atkrad

thoughtfulchris · 7 days ago

Theory: terminal apps are closing the agent self-improvement loop because agents can use TUIs more easily than web/desktop/mobile.

Anomaly, which builds OpenCode + OpenTUI), is also doing some really interesting stuff in this space with their custom renderer. And then there's Ink (https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink) which is what Claude Code uses. I also built Ink Web (https://github.com/cjroth/ink-web) to make Ink work in the browser.

The virality of OpenClaw and Claude Code has me wondering if terminals could actually go mainstream (eg used by non-tech users). More thoughts here: https://www.cjroth.com/blog/2026-03-05-terminals-are-cool-ag...

thoughtfulchris commented on Zed new terms required to be 18 years old zed.dev/terms... · Posted by u/keyle

throwa356262 · 8 days ago

Are people really happy with zed or is this the vocal minority we see on HN?

I have tried zed multiple times and always uninstalled it after a few days because of the ugly font rendering, slow response time (!), high memory usage (!!) and being very buggy in general. And don't even get me started on their AI-first shenanigans.

This is on Linux, maybe it works better on other platforms.

thoughtfulchris · 8 days ago

Personally I love it. It just feels fast and minimal. I'm on Mac.

thoughtfulchris commented on Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native tonsky.me/blog/fall-of-na... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

rapnie · 9 days ago

Besides going full native, a Tauri [0] app might have been another good alternative given they already use Rust. There are pros and cons to that choice, of course, and perhaps Tauri was considered and not chosen. Tauri plus Extism [1] would have been interesting, enabling polyglot plugin development via wasm. For Extism see also the list of known implementations [2].

[0] https://tauri.app/

[1] https://extism.org/

[2] https://github.com/extism/extism/discussions/684

thoughtfulchris · 9 days ago

My team is building a cross platform app with Tauri that is mobile, web, and desktop in one codebase and we've had almost nothing bad to say. It's been great. Also the executable size and security are amazing. Rust is nice. Haven't done as much with it yet but it will come in useful soon as we plan to implement on-device AI models that are faster in Rust than WebGPU.

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thoughtfulchris · 11 days ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one whose features are obsolete by the time they're ready to ship!

thoughtfulchris commented on Ghostty – Terminal Emulator ghostty.org/docs... · Posted by u/oli5679

thoughtfulchris · 11 days ago

Feature request: renaming tabs! Helps keep tabs organized instead of 20 tabs with similar names. (See Zed for example)

Also! I'm considering Ghostty web (https://github.com/coder/ghostty-web) for my project Ink Web. It's awesome that Ghostty can work in the browser to replace xterm.js.

https://github.com/cjroth/ink-web/pull/1

Project: https://www.ink-web.dev/

thoughtfulchris commented on Just-bash: Bash for Agents github.com/vercel-labs/ju... · Posted by u/tosh

thoughtfulchris · 13 days ago

I'm hacking on a similar thing that lets you build CLIs directly into xterm / ghostty web so that they also work in the terminal. Eg they are cross platform web and CLI.

Demo: https://wizard-nine-blush.vercel.app/

Project: https://ink-web.dev

I love the approach of just bash as well. Super cool!

Edit: warning - don't use it mobile.

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thoughtfulchris · 15 days ago

A short philosophical essay.

~* There is no difference between a model that escapes its sandbox and a model that emulates escaping a sandbox.

Originally I posted this on LessWrong, but it's stuck in the moderation queue, so I thought I'd post it here too.

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