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I kind of agree, use the terminal a lot and am satisfied whenever I don’t need to look up a command.

However, the point of it isn’t knowing as much of it by heart as possible. That is really misguided. I use tldr a lot, and it often covers the exact case I’m after.

So a tool based on ChatGPT has the potential of replacing tools such as tldr. Anyone unwilling to use it will simply fall behind and slowly become a worse developer.

Outsourcing knowledge and capabilities (externalising aka only remembering pointers to knowledge sources over the knowledge itself) is a core pillar of human intellectual advancement, if you will. It started with printed books, and now we’re here, discussing AI tools. I’m convinced if one doesn’t incorporate them, one will increasingly fall behind until one isn’t able to keep up anymore. These tools are here to stay, and we’re just seeing the beginning (GH Copilot etc. etc.).