Split Pane to the Same Machine and Directory! (also for Windows/Tabs)

Split pane normally means I have to ssh back to the remote machine and then cd to a directory... why do all that manually when a simple iTerm python API script can handle it for me? Likewise for new tabs and windows.

Here's the iTerm script: https://github.com/g0t4/dotfiles/blob/master/iterm2/scripts/AutoLaunch/wes/wes/tabs.py#L25