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LLMs are the best thing to happen to command line tools. I get so much productivity out of them now.


Seems risky to start running commands on your machine that a hallucinating AI spit out at you without understanding them, but I guess they can at least let you know what to look up so you can double check what the command will do.


It really depends on what you're doing right? Any command line work that I use an LLM to help with is non-destructive. I'll use jq, ffmpeg, etc., but I don't update the initial source.


It's frustrating when they give you a plausible answer that doesn't exist though.


it is, but typing "no, `--do-x` is not a valid option, please only give me real commands" back into a chat window is a hell of a lot less frustrating than sifting through docs that may or may not even exist.


I’m not writing another line of regex lol




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