[dirk94018]

TexMacs is great. However, I use LaTeX regularly. Used to keep a cheat sheet of commands I'd forget between documents. Today I can describe what I want in plain English, pipe it through toast, and get the LaTeX back.

LaTeX, vim, sed, awk, the whole Unix toolkit is getting a new lease on life, because their interfaces are text. Text in, text out. An LLM can write you a perfect \begin{tikzpicture} on the first try.

Clicking through a GUI is much harder and instead of the computer doing the work, I feel like I am working. WYSIWYG won because it made functionality discoverable, today we have AI mentors.

[mgubi]

ChatGPT can write TeXmacs documents :)

[dfc]

What is toast? I have not heard of it. I thought you wrote pandoc at first.

[dirk94018]

toast is sed with a brain. I got tired of cut and paste and made my own tool. Then I decided to let the AI drive and tried toast | bash, pretty good but AIs are terrible at escaping, got annoyed and wrote a shell for AI to use called jam. Wanted a bot to answer my texts, so I wrote iMessage, a cli tool. Now you can do iMessage -c iMessage | toast | iMessage and it answers texts. There is more and now its a startup, Unix re-imagined for AI: https:/linuxtoaster.com