Comment by breuleux

7 days ago

What bothers me is that what I like about terminals is the scrolling workflow of writing commands and seeing my actions and outputs from various sources and programs sequentially in a log. So what I want is a rich full-HTML multi-program scrolling workflow. Instead, people are combining the worst of both worlds. What are they doing? Give me superior UI in a superior rendering system, not inferior UI in an inferior rendering system, god damn it.

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dedpool  7 days ago

You can run it inside the terminal while still using your code editor with full support for diffs and undo. It works seamlessly with IDE like Cursor AI or VSCode, allowing multiple agents to work on different tasks at the same time, such as backend and frontend. The agents can also read each other’s rules, including Cursor rules and Crush Markdown files.

mccoyb  7 days ago

Say more about what you mean by "multi-program scrolling workflow", if you don't mind

  • teraflop  7 days ago

    I think what they mean by "multi-program scrolling workflow" is just what you ordinarily get in a terminal window. You run command A, and below it you see its output. You run command B, and below it you see its output. And you can easily use the scroll bar to look at earlier commands and their output.

    The parent commenter seems to be asking for the same thing, but with rich text/media.

  • breuleux  7 days ago

    I mean a session that isn't limited to interaction with a single program. For example, if I have an agent in this paradigm, I want to easily interleave prompting with simple commands like `ls`, all in the same history. That's not what I'm getting with apps like claude code or crush. They just take over the entire terminal, and crush even quits without leaving a trace.

    • mccoyb  7 days ago

      Thanks, thinking about this - I think there are several ways to serve this concern: one could be having an agent as a server, where "prompting" is just a command `prompt ...` sent to the agent as a server. Then you never leave your terminal.

      Presumably, you'd want this, but with some sort of interface _like_ these TUI systems?

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