Claude Code Asks Nicely. Aye Chat Defaults to Action.
Claude Code’s ad celebrates ‘explain first, wait for approval.’ Aye Chat bets on a different UX: act first, snapshot everything, and make undo so cheap you stop negotiating with the model.
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Claude Code Asks Nicely. Aye Chat Swings the Hammer (with an Undo Cord)
Claude Code’s ad celebrates ‘explain first, wait for approval.’ Aye Chat bets on a different UX: act first, snapshot everything, and make undo so cheap you stop negotiating with the model.
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.
Retrospecting: idea behind my own AI-powered terminal
A personal retrospective on the origins and development of Aye Chat, an AI-powered terminal tool.