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by thiht 753 days ago
> Is it just me, or allowing hallucinations into my terminal a line that I am not willing to cross?

Depends how you use it. For example, writing jq filters, or awk scripts, or some shell pipelines is always a bit of a pain. It's something where LLMs can really improve quality of life.
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swiftcoder 753 days ago
Or, you know, we could actually build approachable tools, instead of using AI to paper over the UX shortcomings of programs from the 80's...
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hombre_fatal 753 days ago
All of the cli programs you use might have perfect, modern apis, but the issue is that the breadth of your workloads means that you can't memorize every cli program api across every case that pops up.

Consider any program or arguments you seldom use. Or come up with an api for ffmpeg that you think is optimally approachable and you'll see that it's so full-featured that you aren't going to keep it all fresh in your head when you use it every few months.

I'd rather let the computer do grunt work for me.

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thiht 753 days ago
Not everything is a UI issue though. Some software just is complex. There's nothing wrong with asking for help, be it with an AI or with a colleague.
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