[markstos]

There's a method that's even faster than asking ChatGPT what to type, and that's knowing what to type.

For tasks you do regularly, it's worth the investment to learn.

[_fizz_buzz_]

True, but we cannot possible learn all the things. I wrote a nice little batch script last week with the help of ChatGPT. This is something I have to do maybe once or twice a year and I am sure someone who does this every day was a lot faster, but what took me maybe 30 mins would've taken me a day.

[kstrauser]

I agree. Here it's being used like a translation app: convert English into the shell language. That's all well and good for a place you're going to visit a couple of times, but if you plan on living there, you need to learn the local language.

[AlecSchueler]

Being able to use a tool akin to Google translate is a fantastic boon to language learning though.

[kstrauser]

Absolutely! It’s a fantastic learning cool, but not a substitute for actual learning.

[worik]

Yes.

But there is so much to know one short life

I use Perl, now, for shell scripts. Long before LLMs I decided I could not learn another syntax when Perl was 99% as good

Same reason I have not learnt Sed and Awk.

[thrwlol]

You really should compare your typing speed with chatgpt if you think you can out type it for a question that you know.

Once I write the document string of the function I want it gets it right faster than anyone I know.

[corethree]

I like this method. The problem with it is that there's just too much stuff to know. So let me teach you another method. Don't try to know everything, learn to get things from other resources, one of which is chatGPT. Worth the investment to be wise about what you pick and choose to learn.