I have had a similar notion, around the same time, with tui's and strace in particular. Lots of experiments, never quite good enough to publish or try to popularize. Something I've found in the last few years though, and especially the last six months, is that the impulse to make a better tui has died for me. Claude et al are going to wield these tools via cli far better than I can via tui. The built in visualization is nice for sure in tui, an embodied perspective on how to investigate something, however Claude can make a custom one for me in the moment within a few minutes. My impulse is to throw Claude at the issue with the bare linux toolbox while I do other things, not hand craft better tools that I don't have much motivation to use right now.

I always wonder what JS's goal is with these blog posts. I can't buy the recruiting argument - nobody actually wants to join because they like the OCaml ecosystem, they want to join because they want to be around MIT grads and IOI medalists and become super wealthy in 3 years (and critically, be far away from untermesnsch like Amazon engineers or state school grads like me)