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Show HN: TUI-use: Let AI agents control interactive terminal programs (github.com)
mccoyb 6 minutes ago [-]
Something something medical researcher reinvents calculus.

In 2026: frontend web developer reinvents tmux.

Guys, please do us the service of pre-filtering your crack token dreams by investigating the tool stack which is already available in the terminal ... or at least give us the courtesy of explaining why your vibecoded Greenspun's 10th something is a significant leg up on what already exists, and perhaps has existed for many years, (and is therefore, in the training set, and is therefore, probably going to work perfectly out of the box).

wild_egg 2 minutes ago [-]
I've had my agents using tmux for these use cases for a couple years now. What does TUI-use offer on top?
wolttam 23 minutes ago [-]
This is kind of fun, something I've been thinking about over the last couple days.

This is one area that makes me feel like our current LLM approach is just not quite general enough.

Yes, developers and power users love the command-line, because it is the most efficient way to accomplish many tasks. But it's rarely (never?) our only tool. We often reach for TUIs and GUIs.

It's why approaches like this get me excited: https://si.inc/posts/fdm1/

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