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.

January 5, 2026 · Vyacheslav Mayorskiy, dev team

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.

January 3, 2026 · Vyacheslav Mayorskiy, dev team

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.

December 16, 2025 · Vyacheslav Mayorskiy, dev team

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.

December 16, 2025 · Vyacheslav Mayorskiy, dev team

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.

November 9, 2025 · Vyacheslav Mayorskiy, dev team