Feature Request
Summary
I just found this is the release notes for iTerm2 3.5.0:
- Using OpenAI's ChatGPT API, iTerm2 can now write commands for you, interpret the output of commands, and guide you towards a goal. See the AI section below for details.
Sadly, this makes iTerm2 completely untenable for me. Do I have to spell out why?
There is a risk that everything I type is being sent to someone else's server somewhere
There is a risk that some LLM-generated random spew is typed into my shell and executed ?! (possibly as root)
I don't care if there's a buried flag that enables or disables this behaviour. I want a binary that doesn't have this capability in it at all.
I haven't donated to iTerm2, but I would pay for a version which doesn't have any remote communication capability in it (no OpenAI, no remote syntax highlighting or remote autocomplete or web search or mail reader). If I want remote communication, I'll use ssh thank you.
Aside: recent Apple CPUs do have a "neural engine", but I'm also not interested in downloading a multi-gigabyte LLM and running it locally. As far as I'm concerned, the job of a terminal program is to take what I type and submit it to the system, and to print what the system returns.
Alternatives
I have now disabled "Check for updates automatically" in iTerm2 Settings (General > Services) so that I don't get 3.5.0, but it's obviously not sustainable long-term to stay on 3.4.23 forever.
I will possibly have to go back to Apple Terminal.
Concerns
Privacy - obvious
Complexity - yes
Is this an instance of a more general problem? - yes too much LLM integration in the world too much creeping featurism in software in general
This message was composed using my brain. No LLM was involved.