I see how what I said might sound contradictory, so let me explain.
In the case of startups using AI, most of them have some marginal benefit from the AI usage, if a bit overblown. By "shoehorning", what I was saying is that there isn't sufficient justification for a lot of the AI usage; it makes stuff 1% easier (maybe), while making the product more expensive (only being subsidized by VC money or just operating at a loss so it doesn't immediately look like it is in the short term). I didn't say "shoehorning" to imply that there's zero utility in it, just that there's not really enough to justify a lot of it.
> It didn't send anything off in the background (you don't need an AI feature to do that, BTW).
Fair enough, I didn't look into the implementation details, and obviously you can have stuff sent in the background without AI (e.g. usage statics). Most AI stuff I've seen has been just proxied to OpenAI (or some competitor/affiliate), so I guess I just assumed that that's what iTerm was doing.
ETA:
Looking into this a bit further, I completely agree that the vicious comments that have been spreading in regards to this are completely ridiculous and mean-spirited. I'm sick of AI as much of the next guy but people are being pretty dickish about something that fundamentally they're getting for free.
In the case of startups using AI, most of them have some marginal benefit from the AI usage, if a bit overblown. By "shoehorning", what I was saying is that there isn't sufficient justification for a lot of the AI usage; it makes stuff 1% easier (maybe), while making the product more expensive (only being subsidized by VC money or just operating at a loss so it doesn't immediately look like it is in the short term). I didn't say "shoehorning" to imply that there's zero utility in it, just that there's not really enough to justify a lot of it.
> It didn't send anything off in the background (you don't need an AI feature to do that, BTW).
Fair enough, I didn't look into the implementation details, and obviously you can have stuff sent in the background without AI (e.g. usage statics). Most AI stuff I've seen has been just proxied to OpenAI (or some competitor/affiliate), so I guess I just assumed that that's what iTerm was doing.
ETA:
Looking into this a bit further, I completely agree that the vicious comments that have been spreading in regards to this are completely ridiculous and mean-spirited. I'm sick of AI as much of the next guy but people are being pretty dickish about something that fundamentally they're getting for free.