Let me preface by saying I despise corpo llm use and slop creation. I hate it.
However, it does seem like it could be an interesting helpful tool if ran locally in the cli. I’ve seen quite a few people doing this. Again, it personally makes me feel like a lazy asshole when I use it, but its not much different from web searching commands every minute (other than that the data used in training it is obtained by pure theft).
Have any of you tried this out?
What’s the difference in a command line interface and a terminal?
If you’re being rigorous, a “CLI” app is a program that one interacts with entirely from a shell command line. One types the command and any options in (normally) a single line in bash or similar. One hits enter, the program runs, and then terminates.
On a Linux system, a common example would be
ls.Some terminal programs, often those that use the
curses/ncurseslibrary, are run, but then one can also interact with them in other ways. This broader class of programs is often called something like “terminal-based” “console-based”, or "text-based`, and called “TUI” programs. One might press keys to interact with them while they run, but it wouldn’t necessarily be at a command line. They might have menu-based interfaces, or use various other interfaces.On a Linux system, some common examples might be
nano,mc,nmtuiortop.nmtuiandnmcliare actually a good example of the split.nmcliis a client for Network Manager that takes some parameters, runs, prints some output, and terminates.nmtuiruns in a terminal as well, but one uses it theough a series of menus.