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by AlexandrB 644 days ago
> Just imagine asking AI to instantly deliver the exact command you need.

How do you know that it delivered the "exact" command you needed without reading the documentation and understanding what the commands do? This has all the same dangers as copy/pasting someone's snippet from StackOverflow.

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If you are using ffmpeg, you can glance at the command, see if it has a chance of working, then run it on a video file and open the resulting file in a video player, see if it matches your expectation.

It has made using ffmpeg and similar complex cli tools amazingly simple.

I'd even say that copying from StackOverflow is safer than using AI, because on most questions you've got peer review (upvotes, downvotes, and comments).