[hparadiz]

Yea there's something called a phone book too.

[bandrami]

And that would be a much better source for a phone number than Googling. Similarly, the docs that ship with software are a better source for command line switches for that software than a search engine or LLM.

[hparadiz]

My lived experience right now is a lot of super talented people around me using these tools all day every day to build awesome things and then there's the randos like you on HN who think they know better. Protip: You don't know squat.

[cruffle_duffle]

The docs that ship with it are a great source for the LLM who will be running the command and monitoring its output, fixing or adjusting whatever in order to complete my goal. Why on earth would I be calling it by hand?

[bandrami]

> Why on earth would I be calling it by hand?

So that it's done correctly instead of wrongly

[hparadiz]

pictured

> man plows field by hand