Terminal

Figure 1. pi agent harness cover image AI coding agents have moved from the browser into the terminal, right next to the tools we already use every day. pi is such an agent: a fast, terminal-native coding assistant that reads and writes files, runs shell commands and talks to a range of LLM providers – all from within your project directory. What makes pi interesting is that it is scriptable and extensible. Besides its interactive TUI it offers a non-interactive mode for one-shot prompts and an RPC mode for embedding it into other tools, and it can be extended with custom tools, skills, prompt templates and themes packaged and shared through npm or git. ...

Recently I needed to add a progress bar to a Java based terminal/console application and I used a specific library that I’d like to demonstrate in the following snippet. Figure 1. Terminal based Progress Bar for Java Dependencies Using Maven, we just need to add the following dependency: pom.xml <dependency> <groupId>me.tongfei</groupId> <artifactId>progressbar</artifactId> <version>0.7.3</version> </dependency> Sample Application The application shows how to set up the progress bar and how to advance its status by-one, by a given amount or to a specific number. ...