AI-Generated TUI Apps Everywhere: Buzz Lightyear Clone Aisle Edition
Description
A two-panel meme using the Buzz Lightyear claw machine scene from Toy Story 2. In the top panel, Buzz looks excited inside his box with overlaid white impact-font text: 'I built this TUI app that solves a basic task. Please give me updoots reddit.' The bottom panel shows the iconic store aisle of hundreds of identical boxed Buzz Lightyear toys stretching across shelves, overlaid with dozens of OpenAI/ChatGPT logos and orange Claude/Anthropic-style starburst logos pasted over the boxes, implying every one of those 'unique' projects is the same AI-generated app. An imgflip.com watermark is visible in the bottom-left corner. The meme skewers the flood of near-identical, LLM-generated terminal UI side projects posted to Reddit and Hacker News for karma, where each author believes their utility is novel while the shelves are full of clones
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It's a TUI todo app written by an LLM - the only state it manages is the author's need for validation
The interface is terminal; the originality died earlier.
was too lazy to automate adding Claude logos to packages? Comment deleted
Ai was too inaccurate Comment deleted
Who says TUI instead of CLI? Comment deleted
they're different things Comment deleted
Explain the difference pls, because i assumed it stands for text based user interface and command line user interface, both use text commands line by line Comment deleted
tui doesn't it is like a gui just in terminal Comment deleted
CLI → commandline arguments and shit TUI → buttons and stuff but in the terminal (htop, nmtui, lynx) Comment deleted
Than htop is both tui and cli? Comment deleted
htop has both, ye. the flags and such are its CLI, and the interface once you launch it is its TUI Comment deleted
They're the same: Command line interface and terminal user interface are the same thing, unless you know somebody that uses terminal without tty Comment deleted
No, they are not. CLI - ps -a, cat TUI - top, nano Comment deleted
You cant have a command line without a terminal sorry Comment deleted
command line interface implies that you interact with your utility by, well, utilizing commands Comment deleted
yeah sure and because they're completely the same, NetworkManager (you know, the main network manager for linux devices) has both nmtui and nmcli executables which differ in exactly the way I described earlier Comment deleted
No it's not: TUI is about how it looks CLI is about how it works Comment deleted
To make it simpler, you can just replace a terminal with a GUI that shows a list of commands to choose from and dropdown menus for arguments, this is still CLI because in essence you are following the same rules of commands and arguments Comment deleted
TUI classics (without CLI) Comment deleted
One precedes the other Comment deleted
who came up with terminal user interface being a valid expansion to tui Comment deleted
TUI with built-in CLI Comment deleted
DOS ... Comment deleted
BBS 👨🦳 Comment deleted
what does it do? Comment deleted
Typically, providing interactive access to dowloading files, reading newsgroups and real-time chat rooms, — over a dialup modem line. Comment deleted
I don't remember seeing a dial up modem ever Comment deleted
Pure CLI, regardless of colors, menus, etc. Comment deleted
colors we can achieve with ANSI color codes but click events? don't know how they work in terminal Comment deleted
That's also, spoilers, with ANSI escape code Comment deleted
no idea either, but they certainly work. other things that (some) terminals support via escape codes: - sending desktop notifications - adding clickable links - setting the window title (or tab name, depending on impl) Comment deleted
very cool imo. if you have webfinger installed in your terminal, you can get a little demo by webfingering [email protected] Comment deleted
fingering... on the web..? Comment deleted
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webfinger Comment deleted
oh well so, gotta have something on the otherside to respond Comment deleted
where's that "computer science is the horniest science" post Comment deleted
wish we could do markdown stuff or maybe bare bone html stuff in terminals Comment deleted
there are some basic webbrowsers for the term Comment deleted
well.. maybe running a lightweight web server locally and then using the browser for graphics and the shell access of backend to run the commands.... Comment deleted
Just write GUI at this point 🙏 Comment deleted
Prehistoric video-streaming services 🤪 Comment deleted
it's just a hand sign for W Comment deleted
I don't know who or what that is Comment deleted
I'm kind of getting curious about the fediverse what happens if a group of nodes get isolated from others? Comment deleted
…in general there is no automatic node discovery in that sense; people make the home instance look up external instances by typing in someone's handle, or by someone from a different server boosting a post from another server into your home instance Comment deleted
"isolation" only happens if there's either no interactions between the users on the two servers, or if one server defederates (blocks) the other Comment deleted
oh well I thought something like a shared block chain of contents is in action Comment deleted
no, the federation part is similar to email Comment deleted