A few weeks ago, I wrote about an experiment to bring ChatGPT to Emacs as a shell. I was fairly new to both ChatGPT and building anything on top of comint. It was a fun exercise, which also generated some interest.

As mentioned in the previous post, I took inspiration in other Emacs packages (primarily ielm) to figure out what I needed from comint. Soon, I got ChatGPT working.

As I was looking at OpenAI API docs, I learned about DALL-E: “an AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.”

Like ChatGPT, they also offered an API to DALL-E, so I figured I may as well try to write a shell for that too… and I did.

There was quite a bit of code duplication between the two Emacs shells I had just written. At the same time, I started hearing from folks about integrating other tools, some cloud-based,