I agree that it has nothing to do with retro computing. TUI tooling has gotten really good, and no one has figured out a GUI pattern that works with how many of us drive LLMs.
Eventually, a pattern will emerge, and it will be obvious what that looks like, but everything either resembled an IDE or an Email app, and we don't want or need that.
There's a huge architectural difference, too. Many of us are running a TUI remotely, so it stays persistent, and we can be mobile.
Jeff Triplett
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2026-06-26 13:10:44 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…hvu8
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