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Using better languages like Powershell or Python becomes a lot more valuable here. I definitely think bash is going to be mostly useless in 5 years, you'll be a
by lukeschlather 3y ago
Using better languages like Powershell or Python becomes a lot more valuable here. I definitely think bash is going to be mostly useless in 5 years, you'll be able to generate legible code that does exactly what you want rather than having to do write-only stuff like that. Really we're already there. I've long switched from bash to something else at the first sign of trouble, but LLMs make it so easy. Poorly written python is better than well-written bash.
Of course, LLMs can generate go or rust or whatever so I suspect such languages will become a lot more useful for things that would call for a scripting language today.
- emporas 3y agoI would generalize even more and say that any scripting language is going to be deprecated very soon, like Python etc. They are going to be replaced by safe, type-checked, theorem-proved verbose code, like Rust or something similar. What do i care how many lines of code are necessary to solve a problem, if all of them are gonna be written automatically. 1 line of Bash/awk versus 10 lines of Python versus 100 lines of Rust? Are they any different to one another?
- boredtofears 3y ago> I definitely think bash is going to be mostly useless in 5 years I'll take that bet
- LaGrange 3y agoThis is kinda side to my main point: while online knowledge is great, there are sometimes surprisingly deep gaps in it. So I can see AI trained on it sometimes struggle in surprising ways.