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Honestly I can't believe Apple put that foundation model product out the door. I was so excited about it, but when I tried it, it was such a disappointment. G

• franze 6mo ago
  yeah, it is super limited but also you can now do cmd(){ local x c r a; while [[ $1 == -* ]]; do case $1 in -x)x=1;shift;; -c)c=1;shift;; *)break;; esac; done; r=$(apfel -q -s 'Output only a shell command.' "$*" | sed '/^```/d;/^#/d;s/^[[:space:]]*//;/^$/d' | head -1); [[ $r ]] || { echo "no command generated"; return 1; }; printf '\e[32m$\e[0m %s\n' "$r"; [[ $c ]] && printf %s "$r" | pbcopy && echo "(copied)"; [[ $x ]] && { printf 'Run? [y/N] '; read -r a; [[ $a == y ]] && eval "$r"; }; return 0; } cmd find all swift files larger than 1MB cmd -c show disk usage sorted by size cmd -x what process is using port 3000 cmd list all git branches merged into main cmd count lines of code by language without calling home or downloading extra local models and well, maybe one day they get their local models .... more powerful, "less afraid" and way more context window.
  • beepbooptheory 6mo ago
    What is the AI doing here? Or is this just like being cheeky?
    • dgacmu 6mo ago
      The pile of shell and sed is cleaning up the ai output and then running it in the shell. The instruction to the AI was to create _a_ shell command. So it's a random shell command generator (maybe).
      • corndoge 6mo ago
        that part is the system prompt, the script is a function that takes a prompt describing a shell command as an argument
        • beepbooptheory 6mo ago
          But it's gotta be just a joke right? Which is why all the examples are just classic things you do with bash/unix utilities? I'll just say, if not a joke, the bit is appreciated either way! "AI change to the home directory. Make it snappy!"
          • solatic 6mo ago
            mv /Users/beepbooptheory /Users/snappy
  • jorvi 6mo ago
    This really makes me think of A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge. A loose prequel to A Fire Upon The Deep, and IMO actually the superior story. It plays in the far future of humanity. In part of it, one group tries to take control of a huge ship from another group. They in part do this by trying to bypass all the cybersecurity. But in those far future days, you don't interface with all the aeons of layers of command protocols anymore, you just query an AI who does it for you. So, this group has a few tech guys that try the bypass by using the old command protocols directly (in a way the same thing like the iOS exploit that used a vulnerability in a PostScript font library from 90s). Imagine being used to LLM prompting + responses, and suddenly you have to deal with something like sed '/^```/d;/^#/d;s/^[[:space:]]\*//;/^$/d' | head -1); [[ $r ]] and generally obtuse terminal output and man pages. :) (offtopic: name your variables, don't do local x c r a;. Readability is king, and a few hundred thousand years from now some poor Qeng Ho fellow might thank his lucky stars you did).
  • sn0wf1re 6mo ago
    That would be pretty cool if the model was a little more useful, but it isn't very good. And the guardrails are hilariously bad. cmd print first and last line from stdin $ echo -n | tail -n 2 cmd print first and last line from stdin using sed error: [guardrail] The request was blocked by Apple's safety guardrails. Try rephrasing. no command generated
• drob518 6mo ago
  In Apple’s defense, they did make it do something borderline useful while targeting a baseline of M1 Macs with 8 GB of RAM (and even less in phones).