SevenTTY — local shell + terminal + SSH for classic Mac OS
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So if someone is paying me to write a report, and I need to find where a reference was in one of ten large documents, is it better to manually search the documents over a day on the budget, or use AI to explain what I'm looking for, and get a page reference in seconds?
That's mainly how I use it - a search that doesn't require exact keyword matches.
I don't find "hate" a... normal reaction to a bit of software.
I won't wade into the AI debate here, but just wanted to point out that this sort of thing (UNIX/POSIX-ish environment as a mac app) has been attempted to varying degrees of success many times over the years. You might want to take a look at https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/macrelix-unix-like-os-as-mac-app.27414/
If you get paid hourly it's better to do it by hand
If you don't get paid hourly it's still better to do it by hand. Why would you want a spicy autocomplete to make shit up?
me too
Ah, I see.
Damn those AI terminators making up the page number I'm going to read in 5 seconds anyway. Damn them to hell.
me too
we're partners in this, comrade!
Ah, that old adage. Pay by the hour, spend 4 hours sharpening the axe, vs paid by the job, get rushed jobs. lmfao. AI should just mean you have more time to review the results - but if you're gonna follow the old adage, you could still choose to extend it (artificially? lol) or rush it, regardless. The human part ultimately doesn't change there, the people who do mediocre work, will just do mediocre work faster, regardless of bringing a better axe.
This is interesting, I'd wondered if something like this already existed. The reason I started with ssheven as a basis was because it had modern ssh capabilities baked in from the start, and I didn't want to have to completely re-invent the wheel there. The telnet support I just added was able to re-use a lot of that implementation. It seems this macrelix project is quite a bit older, but definitely curious to see the approach they took. I've mostly been trying to add the things I want to see, from my own unix/linux experiences. Ultimately it won't ever be real unix (we got A/UX if we truly want that). I'm also trying to avoid going full-force and ending up with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect which is also a thing...I think I'm targeting MVP type stuff for now, polish what it has, without going too far into the weeds.
You forgot to thank Claude!
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