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by andai 35 days ago
I think you can fix that by setting an environment variable (regarding the terminal?) but it was a while since I checked. (I was running Claude as a subprocess and had similar issues.)

Also this reminds me of a principle I learned from a mentor. "People are visual buyers. If it looks good, people will think the code is good."

Unfortunately it doesn't matter whose fault the janky TUI is, people will see that and associate it with your software.
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kstenerud 35 days ago
It's more along the lines of: Anyone with an axe to grind will find something to grind it on.

Early stage products will have some rough edges. We've seen that in Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, LXC, KVM, etc. And people griped and raged about the sheer incompetence of the maintainers and utter lack of quality, but they still used those tools even before the rough edges were polished away and folks finally settled down.

The less one pays for something, the more entitled one feels to whinge and heap on abuse.

I've been down this road so much now that it's no biggie if a few Karens want to blow off steam at my expense. I'm not above exposing their silliness though ;-)

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wasabi991011 35 days ago
> Early stage products will have some rough edges. We've seen that in Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, LXC, KVM, etc.

Is your product really the same complexity as these?

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kstenerud 35 days ago
It tackles similar kinds of problems, dealing with idiosyncrasies in Linux distros (and Mac), docker, containers, kata, firecracker, seatbelt, tart, tmux, Claude, the various terminal emulators out there, and trying to herd those cats such that it doesn't blow up in your face.

Is it doing it to the same scale? No - it's a single user app. But have a look at https://github.com/kstenerud/yoloai/blob/main/docs/dev/backe... and you'll see the kind of shit a project like this has to handle. It's not trivial.

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blanched 35 days ago
I’m not sure why you needed a gendered insult to make your point here. Surely there’s a less sexist way to imply someone is bothering you.
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pprotas 35 days ago
"This is, unfortunately, how narcissists behave. It's simply impossible for a narcissist to be wrong. They truly believe themselves to be right, all the time, and will even distort reality around them to "make" it true. And they do it all unconsciously." - kstenerud
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