[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.