21 Aug
2026
21 Aug
'26
6:33 p.m.
I’ve been trying to run these cli based agents on real terminals quite a bit. They make a
real mess with all the glamorous color throbbing and boxes and Unicode. But Devin is the
least messy I’ve found on a real VT241 when you stipulate
“unicode_mode”: “ascii”,
“legacy_terminal: “true”
in ~/.config/devin/config.json
Something of a pleasure to work with on an real terminal, actually.
On Aug 21, 2026, at 14:42, emanuel stiebler via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 2026-08-19 15:58, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
https://devin.ai/cli
Not exactly the image I'd expect to see on a webpage advertising shiny new
technology. It even shows that application running on the VT100 (simulated, but the
evidence for that is pretty subtle).
Fun.
Teaching old dogs new tricks :)