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by pixel_tracing 1274 days ago
It seems like the use case is for folks who might be noobs and in that regard I’d argue this tool is significantly dangerous. The user could accept a command that removes all their files unknowingly as an example.

The commands in the article I saw are fairly long too. I understand we have a cool new shiny toy (GPT) and see it’s potential but it still needs work because chances are if you’re typing “do create a new repository called demo,” you probably already know how to type “mkdir demo && cd demo && git init” in fact GPT may even forget to run the first two commands (dangerous) without more explicit instructions

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What would be cool is if you could get GPT to break the command up into its components and then explain what each component does and how it works.
Just goofing around with it, ChatGPT does pretty well at that, I'm really impressed with this: https://imgur.com/a/lVcWbAH
This site does that: https://explainshell.com/

Although I suppose it's not integrated into a shell