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by fsloth 102 days ago
TBH I’ve been here a while, never felt what the point with the above is but do feel LLM:s are a new valuable affordance in computer use.

I mean I don’t have to remember the horrible git command line anymore which already improves my exprience as a dev 50%.

It’s not all hype bs this time.
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latexr 102 days ago
> I mean I don’t have to remember the horrible git command line anymore

Every time I see a comment like this, I have to wonder what the heck other devs were doing. Don’t you know there were shell aliases, and snippet managers, and a ton of other tools already? I never had to commit special commands to memory, and I could always reference them faster than it takes to query any LLM.

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fsloth 101 days ago
You do realize it does not help _me_ at all if _you_ have found your perfect custom setup.

Because it’s custom there is no standard curriculum you could point me to etc.

So it’s great you’ve found a setup that works for you but I hope you realize it’s silly to become idignant I don’t share it.

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latexr 101 days ago
The point I’m making is there are tons of solutions. Deterministic, fast, low-energy, customisable. Which is why I said “I have to wonder what the heck other devs were doing”. As in, have you never looked for a solution to your frustration? Hard to believe there was nothing out there before which wouldn’t have improved your Git command-line experience. Like, say, one of the myriad GUI tools which exist.

> Because it’s custom there is no standard curriculum you could point me to etc.

Not true. There are tons of resources out there not only explaining the solutions but even how different people use them and why.

If I sat with you for ten minutes and you explained me the exact difficulties you have, I doubt I couldn’t have suggested something.

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fsloth 101 days ago
I use a git gui :)

So the only time I need terminal, it’s for something non-obvious.

”There are tons of resources”

This is not a standard curriculum as such though.

I’ve tried to come to terms with posix for 25 years and am so happy I don’t need to anymore. That’s just me!

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