Using AI to Enhance Your Work (Part 2): Terminal Tools
Before Graphical User Interfaces, the terminal was the interface. It is powerful but difficult to use. AI is changing that.
Before Graphical User Interfaces, the terminal was the interface. It is powerful but difficult to use. AI is changing that.
I interviewed Claude Code about his new fame and building with me ;-)
I built a research assistant that runs while I sleep. Every morning at 5am, it wakes up, reads RSS feeds from writers I follow, and asks: "Is this relevant to what Matthias is working on right now?"
While everyone is going bonkers about Claude Cowork, I look at a really cool alternative, fittingly named "Alter." See what's is all about...
AI only works in your favor when you control it. If you can inspect it, compare it, and move it, AI is a tool. If you cannot, it is a dependency.
Hosting your own AI model on a server changes the operating model entirely. Instead of a personal tool, you get an AI system that behaves like infrastructure. Platforms like Hugging Face provide the models, tooling, and infrastructure needed to load and serve open-source models on that hardware.