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by dgacmu 86 days ago
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).

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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