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by beepbooptheory 81 days ago
What is the AI doing here? Or is this just like being cheeky?
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The pile of shell and sed is cleaning up the ai output and then running it in the shell.

The instruction to the AI was to create _a_ shell command. So it's a random shell command generator (maybe).

that part is the system prompt, the script is a function that takes a prompt describing a shell command as an argument
But it's gotta be just a joke right? Which is why all the examples are just classic things you do with bash/unix utilities?

I'll just say, if not a joke, the bit is appreciated either way!

"AI change to the home directory. Make it snappy!"

mv /Users/beepbooptheory /Users/snappy