21 Aug
2026
21 Aug
'26
7:06 p.m.
On 2026-08-21 7:33 p.m., Jacob Ritorto via cctalk wrote:
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.
I HAVE BEEN WANTING ASCII 1963 FOR
YEARS!!!!
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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 :)