[sharkjacobs]

> I have no confidence in the answer provided by an AI

You don’t need to have confidence, these are shell one liners, you can generate it, run it, and verify the results in the time it would take you to open a browser window or scroll halfway down a man page.

And if it doesn’t work, then you can still fallback on those.

[rideontime]

How do I verify the results?

[sharkjacobs]

I verify the results by looking at the output and seeing if it did what I wanted it to do.

I don’t mean to be dismissive or reductive. If I need to do something more complex then I’m probably not trying to do it in a shell one-liner.

I used this feature earlier today and prompted it with something like “given piped input, use awk to filter just the 2nd and 5th columns, and truncate the 5th column to 25 chars”. I don’t use awk often but I know that it exists, and I could have figured out how to do this in about 20-40 seconds with a google search or man page, but this was 10x faster.

[Xelynega]

Is this a real opinion people have, or am I misunderstanding...

It sounds like you're recommending people to not understand the shell one-liners they're pasting into their CLI and instead just verify that the outcome was observed after the fact?

That's pretty much the opposite of what I've understood to be "good terminal practice" for my entire life, which can be summed up as "don't execute anything in the terminal that you don't understand".

Is "just paste it and hope you don't lost data/just installed a virus" the new modus-oprandi?

[sharkjacobs]

> It sounds like you're recommending people to not understand the shell one-liners they're pasting into their CLI and instead just verify that the outcome was observed after the fact?

Yes

> Is "just paste it and hope you don't lost data/just installed a virus" the new modus-oprandi?

No

Somewhere in between those two extremes is knowing enough to know that the command you’re pasting in isn’t going to install a virus, even though you don’t fully understand what the -g flag is doing

[Xelynega]

You either understand what the outcome of the command will be before you execute or you don't.

I fail to see any middle ground between those two "extremes", it's pretty black and white.