gptme is a personal AI assistant in your terminal, enabling it to use the terminal, run code, edit files, browse the web, use vision, and more. It assists in all kinds of knowledge-work, especially programming.
Plandex is an AI coding agent designed to work directly in the terminal, capable of planning and completing large tasks that span many files and steps. It helps developers build new apps quickly, add features to existing codebases, write tests and scripts, understand code, and fix bugs.
An optional component to enable AI features in iTerm2, providing network request functionality, ensuring secure data transmission.
aider is a command line tool that lets you pair program with LLMs, to edit code stored in your local git repository. Aider will directly edit the code in your local source files, and git commit the changes with sensible commit messages.
The article argues that instead of developing numerous tools for LLM, giving it direct access to a terminal is more efficient and future-proof. It references Rich Sutton's "The Bitter Lesson" and discusses how the terminal's existing command-line tools can be utilized by LLM for various tasks, highlighting the importance of general methods over specialized tools.
