Two AI coding tool philosophies: narrate and ask permission before touching anything, or act immediately and make undo trivial. This is why Aye Chat chose the second.
When a Model Gets Stuck: How GPT‑5.2 Finished a 'Simple' Spinner That Opus 4.5 Couldn't
A tiny terminal UX request turned into a concurrency bug hunt. Claude Opus 4.5 got close but kept looping on edge cases; GPT‑5.2 finally nailed the real fix by treating it as a UI state machine and serializing rendering.
Designing Terminal UX for AI is really about DX (and a few classic UX principles)
Terminal AI tools live or die by developer experience: hierarchy, progressive disclosure, reversible actions, focus primitives, honest latency, and autocomplete that respects muscle memory.
The Day I Realized Terminal UX for AI Is Really About DX
Models get the headlines. DX is the hard part: making an AI assistant feel native in the terminal without breaking muscle memory. Here are the surprisingly classic UX principles behind Aye Chat.
One Week in Public: What Our First 129 Users Taught Us
A look at Aye Chat’s first week after going public: usage numbers, retention, and why the optimistic workflow seems to ‘click’ after a few hours.
Vector Search, Explained with Elephants in a Room
A friendly explanation of vector search and embeddings using ’elephants in the room’ as a running example.
Retrospecting: idea behind my own AI-powered terminal
A personal retrospective on the origins and development of Aye Chat, an AI-powered terminal tool.
How We Built a Local-First, Privacy-Focused RAG for Our AI Terminal
A detailed exploration of the design and implementation of the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system in Aye Chat, AI-powered terminal workspace, focusing on privacy, performance, and user experience.
A Design for a Local-First, Privacy-Focused RAG System for Codebases
A summary of Aye Chat’s local-first RAG system design, covering the core stack, progressive indexing strategy, and resource management for a private, context-aware AI.
The Day I Stopped Babysitting an AI: Building the Optimistic Workflow
The story of how frustration with approval-seeking AI assistants led to Aye Chat’s ‘optimistic workflow’ - where the AI acts first and you review after, backed by an instant undo button.