From the bench

Occasional writing about network work, terminals, and what we got wrong.

Why the Confirm button is the whole product

27 August 2026

An AI that can type into a router is not impressive. An AI that shows you exactly what it would type, in the right dialect, and then waits, is. Why NTerm never sends a write without a human keystroke — and the one case where it does run something directly.

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