No. I prefer a GUI for anything that isn't going to be scripted (which is to say, most tasks that I do). Easier to work in, and much more discoverable than a CLI.
for me, it's less 'still' and more 'again'. claude code + API tokens means i no longer have to suffer the user-hostile design of many webpages. using full-screen claude code feels like finding my old DOS teddy from childhood buried in the back of a closet.
I prefer CLI over GUI but I also prefer to have a life over making my life harder. On that same context, I prefer nano over vi/vim any time.
Now, the problem with aliases is that the more you use the more addicted you get. If you have to touch another terminal without those aliases, you will automatically try the aliases you are used to or create them so you can do whatever you have to do.
Meaning, it is not a practice easy to transfer to other environment. zsh + auto complete makes your life a lot easier and you won't forget the commands.
I used to believe this for like 10 years. And I never had any custom environment. But then I was at a job where I was forced to create a custom dev environment, because theirs was awful. And then I had to transfer my scripts to another machine, and it turns out, it was actually really easy (just have a git repo you can pull from anywhere). I wasted 10 years with a subpar dev environment.
I'm actually at the point now where I just can do `curl https://website.com/my_environment.sh | bash`, and it sets everything up for me. So even if I SSH into a machine for a brief period of time I'll have my environment with me there too.
For some reason, I can only scroll down a little bit on medium articles and then firefox freezes that tab and won't let me scroll up or down. I assume it has something to do with adblock, but I've noticed it a lot recently.
AI slop. There are many tell-tale signs that chatgpt or claude was being used. It’s very difficult to read, as it regurgitates the same thing over and over.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 42.9 ms ] thread> Text is the universal interface
No wonder we don't get better GUIs if people keep turning the terminal into a religion.
Should surely be "two-word"?
I prefer CLI over GUI but I also prefer to have a life over making my life harder. On that same context, I prefer nano over vi/vim any time.
Now, the problem with aliases is that the more you use the more addicted you get. If you have to touch another terminal without those aliases, you will automatically try the aliases you are used to or create them so you can do whatever you have to do.
Meaning, it is not a practice easy to transfer to other environment. zsh + auto complete makes your life a lot easier and you won't forget the commands.
I'm actually at the point now where I just can do `curl https://website.com/my_environment.sh | bash`, and it sets everything up for me. So even if I SSH into a machine for a brief period of time I'll have my environment with me there too.
The nipple is the universal interface. Everything else is an abstraction.
> I still live in the terminal
But you frequent the fish market at chatgpt dot com, I suppose.