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by rmholt 451 days ago
I always die inside a little when junior dev at my company uses Windsurf to tell him how a specific pandas function works.

Like you're just using it as an expensive documentation repeater, but now with spicy possibility of lies.

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I possibly disagree with the principle, if I understood the point correctly: I have always felt reading the `man` pages an inefficient process, searching for literals ('/') often inefficace, and hoped one could finally request for `man` content (and similar) in (more) natural language.
Yeah fair. In unix tools I usually lean on AI too. But also pandas has much better docs than man pages tbh. Maybe pandas is just simpler than the unix world hah