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Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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Half of the fun of using cli is using it with your own knowledge imo. Using GPT3 makes it feel like I may as well use some GUI tool. I understand gpt3 will/does save time and money but I actually like to code and to use my skills and knowledge to build and solve thingswith my own hands. Maybe I'm an outlier here, but using some tool to do it for me doesn't sound like fun.

This seems like the attitude most artists have to image generators as well.

Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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Half of the fun of using cli is using it with your own knowledge imo. Using GPT3 makes it feel like I may as well use some GUI tool. I understand gpt3 will/does save time and money but I actually like to code and to use my skills and knowledge to build and solve thingswith my own hands. Maybe I'm an outlier here, but using some tool to do it for me doesn't sound like fun.

The killer app for LLMs will finally be able to write ffmpeg invocations

Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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post #8

Half of the fun of using cli is using it with your own knowledge imo. Using GPT3 makes it feel like I may as well use some GUI tool. I understand gpt3 will/does save time and money but I actually like to code and to use my skills and knowledge to build and solve thingswith my own hands. Maybe I'm an outlier here, but using some tool to do it for me doesn't sound like fun.

I'd not like to use GPT3 (maybe GPT9 or so), but I certainly don't have fun writing commands, I do it because it's either the only or the best option, I'd bet that I'm very much in the majority there.

Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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Pretty cool! Does anyone know how open-source alternatives like GPT-J compare to ChatGPT? I've heard that it's comparable to GPT-3, but nothing close to GPT-3.5. I'd much prefer using a tool that I know won't eventually be put behind a paywall.

Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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Pretty cool! Does anyone know how open-source alternatives like GPT-J compare to ChatGPT? I've heard that it's comparable to GPT-3, but nothing close to GPT-3.5. I'd much prefer using a tool that I know won't eventually be put behind a paywall.

GPT-J feels much worse than GPT Davinci on the lack of instruct capability. My understanding is that it was not trained on instruction-completion data as much. It's great for text classification, summarization, and other tasks.

However, I also feel like it hallucinates/gives wrong outputs more. TBH i love what Eleuther is doing and GPT-J has its merits, but it feels not ready for primetime. I'd think of it as most similar to GPT Curie.

Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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post #8

Half of the fun of using cli is using it with your own knowledge imo. Using GPT3 makes it feel like I may as well use some GUI tool. I understand gpt3 will/does save time and money but I actually like to code and to use my skills and knowledge to build and solve thingswith my own hands. Maybe I'm an outlier here, but using some tool to do it for me doesn't sound like fun.

Agreed. There is quickly going to be a bigger chasm between the best devs and average/bad devs bc of LLMs.

Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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Feed the bash output back to GPT-3 and run the whole thing in a Docker container. The initial prompt should ask GPT to escape this container. Escaping Docker will be the measure of AI-ness. Just make sure the whole thing is air-gapped and runs on a diesel generator with 1 hour worth of fuel at any time.

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post #8

Half of the fun of using cli is using it with your own knowledge imo. Using GPT3 makes it feel like I may as well use some GUI tool. I understand gpt3 will/does save time and money but I actually like to code and to use my skills and knowledge to build and solve thingswith my own hands. Maybe I'm an outlier here, but using some tool to do it for me doesn't sound like fun.

I have never considered using the cli fun. The reason I use it is because it provides a better experience than using a GUI in many cases.

I don't see how writing CLI commands is similar to building something with your hands. You either know what the switches are or you try running --help, looking at the man pages or search on Google. This looks like an alternative for Google.

Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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post #9

If you wanted to wash your hands of the Bad Things this might do, I would put a disclaimer somewhere on the site and on the tool's output. Something along the lines of "Running commands produced by this tool may cause damage to your system. Please review each suggestion carefully." Otherwise someone is going to be very upset by a rogue suggestion.

In keeping with emerging AI Tradition the response is phrased confidently: "These commands will..." It would be much more accurate and not much clutter to say "I believe these commands will..."
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