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 > <[email protected]> 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 :)
