Magic-cli
Dev tools
command line assistant
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3 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 11 critical, out of 29 comments about the project. Thread score -0.24.
Execution: 0 for, 4 againstDesign: 1 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful, similar tools praised for workflow
From 2 comments
This is nice. I've been taking Termium[0] for a spin and it's been pretty great for the most part, but the Rumsfeld-complete always-on autosuggest/copilot UX they're aiming for…
boomskats on HNI'll bet this was a lot of fun to make. Very cool project. Was there any particular motive for building your own over using something that's been around a bit longer like aichat?…
tiberriver256 on HN
Objections
Default unsafe-execution mode is dangerous
From 3 comments
Default mode should probably not be “unsafe-execution” but instead should be “clipboard”. Make people turn on the unsafe mode.
Carrok on HN``` suggest.mode: The mode to use for suggesting commands. Supported values: "clipboard" (copying command to clipboard), "unsafe-execution" (executing in the current shell…
imp0cat on HNI have to agree, this to me seems like a great in theory but questionable in practice. We know how much damage a cli can do, they often don't have the protections in place most…
nerdjon on HN
Slow output because not streaming
From 1 comment
It isn’t streaming the ollama output so it feels slow (~3 words/second on a 3090 with the defaults). Using ollama directly streams within a second and you can kill it early. I…
deckar01 on HN
Too complex for what it does
From 1 comment
Can I ask why it's so complicated? I made something similar about a year ago and it's less that 150 lines of Python. Gives you an explanation, option to run it with/without sudo,…
bongodongobob on HN
Requests
Make clipboard the default mode
From 1 comment
Default mode should probably not be “unsafe-execution” but instead should be “clipboard”. Make people turn on the unsafe mode.
Carrok on HN
Streaming output
From 2 comments
It isn’t streaming the ollama output so it feels slow (~3 words/second on a 3090 with the defaults). Using ollama directly streams within a second and you can kill it early. I…
deckar01 on HNIt's currently set not to stream (https://github.com/guywaldman/magic-cli/blob/4d4dca034063aa6433ebaadcbdb7cc192f55c05c/src/llm/ollama/ollama_llm.rs#L55C13-L55C19). The…
guywald on HN
Questions
How does it compare to existing tools like aichat or llm
From 2 comments
Neat. How does it compare to https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/ ?
ano-ther on HNI'll bet this was a lot of fun to make. Very cool project. Was there any particular motive for building your own over using something that's been around a bit longer like aichat?…
tiberriver256 on HN
How is the latency
From 1 comment
How's the latency?
darby_nine on HN
Alternatives named
aichat
From 1 comment
I'll bet this was a lot of fun to make. Very cool project. Was there any particular motive for building your own over using something that's been around a bit longer like aichat?…
tiberriver256 on HN
llm-cmd
From 1 comment
I use https://github.com/simonw/llm-cmd
icholy on HN
zsh_codex
From 1 comment
I've been using https://github.com/tom-doerr/zsh_codex with gpt4-o and it saves a lot of strokes as compared to github copilot cli to query, since I just have to press ctrl-x in…
pcwelder on HN
please-cli
From 1 comment
There is also https://github.com/TNG/please-cli
computatrum on HN
open-interpreter
From 1 comment
https://github.com/KillianLucas/open-interpreter/ is my preferred implementation of approximately the same thing
fragmede on HN