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by MrGando 1164 days ago
A few days ago I asked ChatGPT to help me find an argument to perform "some filtering operation" with a world class command line tool. It confidently aswered.

./tool arg1 param1 arg2 param2 --filtering-operation param3

I went for it and it didn't work... I did google a bit and `--filtering-operation` didn't exist.

I then told chat GPT that `--filtering-operation` wasn't real. It apologized and offered me an option that made sense if I made some extra work.

Googling and scanning the crappy documentation would have probably gotten me a faster result.