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by senordevnyc 91 days ago
We're yet to genuinely standardise bloody help texts for basic commands (Does -h set the hostname, or does it print the help text? Or is it -H? Does --help exist?). Writing man-pages seems like a lost art at this point, everyone points to $WEBSITE/docs (which contains, as you guessed, LLM slopdocs).

Are you describing under-engineered AI integrations, or just the general state of CLIs for decades now?

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Yeah, with 44 years of experience working with CLIs, this is just the general state of CLIs for decades now.