> one of the greatest errors that was made with putting this in iTerm2 was making a big show of it
Big show? You have to get several paragraphs into their announcement to read the first mention, middle to end of the list of features they add. In this huge announcement, only three paragraphs are devoted to their AI integration. When I updated, they presented a window showcasing 4 of the new features, the AI integration being the 3rd in the list. If some people here were not as hysterical about it, I may not even have noticed.
I think they mean when you open the app for the first time after installing the update you are walked through a series of slides showing off the new features, which ... I don't know if it's ever been done before with iTerm2, but if it has it is long enough ago that I don't remember it.
I have never seen anybody ever complain about a slideshow of 4 features that pops up once after an update and one can easily close pressing x without even getting through them. This is common for software after an update. Should they try hide what they added? I bet more people who use iterm2 learnt about it here than those who would have learnt about it from iterm2 devs.
And btw as I wrote, the AI integration was 3rd in the list. You have to press the "next" button 2 times to get to it. One could have pressed x on the first slide and not even get to see that. The amount of effort put here into complaining about something that can ignored with 0 effort is absurd. And I cannot shake the feeling that this would have almost never been done for any closed source project.
iTerm2 does that with big releases, and the release note said it was 2 years of work. I recall seeing the same dialog when it added the Python scripting API along with other features.
That line made me discredit the author and the whole blog post. You have to be willfully uninformed to say something so wrong and the very next line is complaining about not being able to use ollama or similar which you absolutely can by changing the API endpoint in the settings.
The author has clearly no idea what they are talking about.
Big show? You have to get several paragraphs into their announcement to read the first mention, middle to end of the list of features they add. In this huge announcement, only three paragraphs are devoted to their AI integration. When I updated, they presented a window showcasing 4 of the new features, the AI integration being the 3rd in the list. If some people here were not as hysterical about it, I may not even have noticed.