Claude Code vs Aye Chat: Approval UI vs the Undo Button
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.
Design-Philosophy
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.
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.