Arguably, adopting ACP might even help Pi’s case, in that it could escape the terminal interface into one of many wrapper GUIs. TUIs inherently tend to limit your userbase to those who know what a terminal is… And given OpenAI’s latest product announcement [0] in response to Meta’s, the trend seems to be to attempt an expansion of customers to the general population, away from just developers and maybe “business” people.

Then again, I don’t even know if general adoption is what Pi/Earendil is going for.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896604

Good points.

About what Pi/Earendil is going for, I can't really say but a while ago they created quite a stir in the Pi community for adding a trust system[0] which for many (me included) went against the loudly advertized "yolo" phylosophy, at that time I speculated it was a move to make it more palatable for the general population (whatever that actually means), so I'll stay optimist for ACP adoption for now.

[0]: https://pi.dev/docs/latest/security#understand-project-trust

The "general adoption agent" for Earendil is their other product Lefos, that is based on Pi and uses email as the interface.