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Confession. I think I haven't read manpages since stackoverflow and certainly not since LLMs. Perhaps the modern version of "man" should be a program you can t
by amelius 7mo ago
Confession. I think I haven't read manpages since stackoverflow and certainly not since LLMs.
Perhaps the modern version of "man" should be a program you can talk to.
- nicman23 7mo agoi have made llms read manpages, it is great lol
- xigoi 7mo agoPlease no. I want to read the manual without having to talk to anything.
- Normal_gaussian 7mo agoIt's called Claude. Or Gemini-cli. Or any other agent capable of running man. "Hey <agent>, use `man` to help answer these questions about grep"
- johannes1234321 7mo agoThat may "answer" a specific question. And all llms can do as they include manpages in training data (and any Agentic thing can search) however the value in reading documentation is that one can find different angles by learning about different options, which allow tontackle problems from a different perspective. The answer to a question is constrained by assumptions which are part of the question.
- amelius 7mo agoMy experience with LLMs is that they often give me different angles that I didn't think of.
- LtWorf 7mo agoHow do you think llms reply to you?