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> Anyone who says AI is useless never had to do the old method of cobbling together git and ffmpeg commands from StackOverflow answers. These days, I'm more li
by skydhash 2y ago
> Anyone who says AI is useless never had to do the old method of cobbling together git and ffmpeg commands from StackOverflow answers.
These days, I'm more likely to read the manual pages and take notes on interesting bits. If I'm going to rely on some tooling for some time, dedicating a few hours of reading is a good trade-off for me. No need to even remember everything, just the general way it solves the problem. Anything more precise is captured in notes, scripts, shell history,... I dare anyone to comes out with an essay like this from LLMs: https://karthinks.com/software/avy-can-do-anything/ https://karthinks.com/software/avy-can-do-anything/