[mrozbarry]

I think this issue is actually two issues

    1. A terminal shouldn't be able to ask some resource on the internet what to type and auto-execute it.
    2. AI fear/fatigue/???

I think point 1 is reasonable to an extent, but it should be taken in context. iTerm2 is a free app, and as far as I can tell, not even remotely required on any mac platform, since there is technically a default dumb terminal, which can be customized. I think the context issue is from the video demos I've seen, nothing directly types into your terminal, it's up to the user to review/copy/paste the generated code snippet. The underlying tech has been in iTerm for a while, from the best I can see. Auto-fill also enables things like the 1password integration, and anyone can open a chatgpt client and copy/paste shell code from there in the same way the iTerm2 integration works.

I understand point 2, I have never cared for any AI hype, it has near-zero interest for me, and doesn't affect my work. Almost every editor has some capacity to ask the internet for data and paste it in, from AI or otherwise, and no one is really sounding a major alarm bell around that. You could argue there is a big push for these integrations to train models, but even that requires a key.

[lxgr]

> 1. A terminal shouldn't be able to ask some resource on the internet what to type and auto-execute it.

Every Linux shell can do that, regardless of your terminal emulator, and arguably that's by design:

    curl https://givemesomecoolshellcommands.com | sh

What iTerm can do is essentially just some GUI sugar around that capability.

If you don't like it, just don't do it :)