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by qmmmur 753 days ago
I really just don’t want software to have these ai things in them. How long are they going to maintain it?

If they want to allow extensibility for the explicit purpose of Llm integration then why not just… make an API?

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They use OpenAI's API with the possibility to set a custom URL, so... done. This makes iTerm compatible with any LLM as long as they implement the same API.

OpenAI's API is the de facto standard for now, it's not up to iTerm to define a standard.

It doesn't look like there's the ability to change the URL. The only options are to change the API key, model name (from a predefined list), the prompt, and the token limit.
search ai in the settings. It's in advanced settings.
So it makes an RPC to an unaudited external server for which they have a reputation for notoriety and stealing Scarlett's voice?
It doesn't, it CAN do it. In the same way you can use curl in iTerm to call OpenAI servers. But if you don't do it, it won't do it on its own.
I hate "AI integration" rubbish as much as everybody else. But in this case the author did it well - it's disabled by default, it won't work unless you decide to paste your key and so on.