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I hope that in a few years we look back at this era of "prompt an LLM for a shell command and instantly run whatever it spits out by pressing enter" with collec

I hope that in a few years we look back at this era of "prompt an LLM for a shell command and instantly run whatever it spits out by pressing enter" with collective embarrassment.

pb7 2y ago
What does this mean?
- skydhash 2y ago
  People that don't like Bash|Zsh|... and are afraid of ImageMagick|ffmpeg|curl|...'s manuals and want AI to generate the perfect script for them.
  - stemlord 2y ago
    Why not both? What do you see wrong with having gpt spit out a complicated ffmpeg filter chain and explaining every step of the output, which you can then look up in the docs and unit test before implementing? I find verifying the gpt output is still quicker than consulting giant wall of text man pages
    - skydhash 2y ago
      Fish and learning to fish. The latter widens your perspective and give you more options, especially if there are a lot of rivers nearby!
      - stemlord 2y ago
        You are saying one should learn to fish with a spear not a fishing rod
  - imtringued 2y ago
    Virsh has a --help screen that shows a command listing that is 20000 characters long. I too would be intimidated.