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Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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Post by Swizec »

Shindi wrote: post #16
pleb_nz wrote: 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.

Yes. The best race car drivers use an automatic transmission if that’s 0.5 seconds faster per lap.

In fact driver aids had to be actively banned in many racing series. Just to make it more fun for spectators.

Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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Post by pramodbiligiri »

krackers wrote: post #12
pleb_nz wrote: 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.

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

There's at least one such command I saw out there: https://www.learngpt.com/prompts/generating-a-complex-ffmpeg...

Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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Post by EGreg »

29athrowaway wrote: post #6
coder-3 wrote: post #2

So it begins! AI is going to permeate an increasing amount of existing software. Eventually, all software will have some form of intelligence built into it.

1. Put a computer in everything 2. Connect all the computers to the Internet 3. Gather all the data from all the computers 4. Train machine learning models to automate some tasks 5. Gather data about automation initiatives 6. Train machine learning models to learn how to automate automation

Automate everything and make all human activity irrelevant

Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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Post by injinj »

pleb_nz wrote: 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 can never remember things. That's why my history file has 100k lines in it.

  $ do create linux bridge
  brctl addbr 
  ip link set  up

  $ do git reverse last commit
  git reset --hard HEAD~1

  $ do gcc show optimizations
  gcc -O -Q --help=optimizers

Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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Post by EGreg »

akomtu wrote: post #18

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.

A good enough AI should be able to breach the airgap, cause your friends to break in and deliver more power to it, and also reverse all SHA-256 hashes by just “deep learning them”!

Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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Post by mfi »

That's a really neat idea!

I built askai (https://github.com/maxvfischer/askai) during the last week to scratch a similar itch of mine. I wanted to be able to quickly get CLI commands that I didn't have on top of mind, by being able to ask questions like "How do you remove a conda environment?" or "How do you get the MX record of a domain using the terminal?".

The CLI I built is a direct integration with GPT3, so it's also possible to ask it other types of questions.

Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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Post by diarrhea »

pleb_nz wrote: 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 kind of agree, use the terminal a lot and am satisfied whenever I don’t need to look up a command.

However, the point of it isn’t knowing as much of it by heart as possible. That is really misguided. I use tldr a lot, and it often covers the exact case I’m after.

So a tool based on ChatGPT has the potential of replacing tools such as tldr. Anyone unwilling to use it will simply fall behind and slowly become a worse developer.

Outsourcing knowledge and capabilities (externalising aka only remembering pointers to knowledge sources over the knowledge itself) is a core pillar of human intellectual advancement, if you will. It started with printed books, and now we’re here, discussing AI tools. I’m convinced if one doesn’t incorporate them, one will increasingly fall behind until one isn’t able to keep up anymore. These tools are here to stay, and we’re just seeing the beginning (GH Copilot etc. etc.).

Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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Post by pleb_nz »

Swizec wrote: post #21
Shindi wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yes. The best race car drivers use an automatic transmission if that’s 0.5 seconds faster per lap. In fact driver aids had to be actively banned in many racing series. Just to make it more fun for spectators.

And often hand crafted guys have more character, story and quality behind them and people often pay more for them. So goes both ways sometimes.

Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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Post by ducktective »

mfi wrote: post #26

That's a really neat idea! I built askai ( https://github.com/maxvfischer/askai ) during the last week to scratch a similar itch of mine. I wanted to be able to quickly get CLI commands that I didn't have on top of mind, by being able to ask questions like "How do you remove a conda environment?" or "How do you get the MX record of a domain using the terminal?". The CLI I built is a direct integration with GPT3, so i…

There is also this [1] that shows the links to the sources of its knowledge in the same page

[1]: https://beta.sayhello.so/

Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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Post by beebmam »

doix wrote: post #19
pleb_nz wrote: 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.

Pipes make it fun. The power of UNIX and it's successors!
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