Yes, they were always tasteless. One job of a platform SDK is to enable creating tasteful things that mesh nicely with the platform idioms, and make it hard to create tasteless things.

With AI, creating the tasteless thing became easy.

If you give people the ability to select a font, they will select Comic Sans.

I think iTerm 2 jumped the shark when the author started implementing a homemade web browser into it.

That AI image is pretty baffling though. Setting aside the pointlessness of displaying an image in the context menu, it even looks like it was made with ancient stable diffusion from 2024 or something, modern image generators are "better" than that. I wonder when it was put in.

WTH…? I use iTerm2 and wasn’t aware of this. What an incredibly bad call.

Oof, that image is rough. Image models just don’t know when to stop shoving shit into an image (instead of less is more, MORE IS MORE), which makes it even worse because that’s where AI image generators tend to break down aka the devil is in the details.

Then they proceed to summon a million infernal imps.

Haha what the fuck.

I've never considered updating iTerm. Apparently that lazieness was the right call?

Jesus. What the hell. What does that sudden AI image even offer? I guess it would make some sense in a "docs page" context (even though there it would too be slop), but as a tooltip of a menu option?

Gotta say though.. that is so unhinged, one has to respect the human ingenuity behind it. No LLM can come up with an idea so batshit insane. They're too mid for that.

Oh god they have invented useless hero images for tooltips. The images being slop is just the cherry on top.

Oh jeez, that's atrocious. I'm starting to reconsider some of the things I used to say about Corporate Memphis.