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.
Terminal
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.