I recently created a simple TUI for ChatGPT optimized for fast access. Currently its optimized for mac os. I use it daily, feedback welcome.

link: https://github.com/tcrensink/chat_term

Can you elaborate what you mean with "optimised for fast access" and "optimised for mac os"?

I took a brief look at your code and it just looks like your run of the mill python and bash code, with an integration locked to tmux.

That's right. TUI usability depends on startup speed, and python scripts are slow to start. The "fast access" is tmux integration so its runs in the background. The "optimised for mac os" -> works on linux but a few bugs to iron out.

So all in all, what you've built is a daemon, because python scripts are slow to start?

Have you ran benchmarks comparing the time it takes to show the full response of a prompt with a daemon and without?

I'm a bit skeptical that loading the amount of code that you have into memory takes that long, but I'm coming from a nodejs background.