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First off, this looks really cool and I'm excited to see more things like this. The overall chat in the HN conversation has got me thinking, though. Around 7
by t-writescode 2y ago
First off, this looks really cool and I'm excited to see more things like this.
The overall chat in the HN conversation has got me thinking, though.
Around 7 years ago in my career, one of my most common actions for one-off scripts was for me to create a WinForms application with, often, a couple text boxes and a "Run" button of some sort.
The text boxes would be the inputs and the run button would ... run. There was also often like a text output or bunch of loglines or something. I wrote almost exclusively in C# at the time, so it was a way to shove a bunch of C# code into place and test it.
I did this for random and arbitrary things I needed to process or solve, a lot like how I used Python or Ruby in the future.
I bet it's actually pretty common for people to need "a script that does a thing", and I think, maybe, that's where a lot of the AI scripting of the most immediate use is going to be. If it can be a familiar interface for people to build (in the past, the IDE) and a familiar or simple place to interact with the generated script (the WinForms + buttons), these programs to generate scripts and do "stuff" could likely spread pretty wide.
I think Jupyter Notebooks are another example of this, another precursor, of sorts?
- piva00 2y agoThat's one use case where LLMs really help me, one-off scripts where I know exactly what I need done, know it's possible but would take me much longer to brush off my Bash, Python, etc. skills to write it. Give the LLM a prompt, let it write the scaffolding, do the tweaks I need, and iterate over with the LLM if I forgot how exactly it was to write a for-loop in Bash.