Show HN: Get answers for shell commands from GPT3 from your terminal

Post by visarga » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 4:52 PM UTC

ajuc wrote: post #22

manchmalscott wrote: post #5

On one hand I can see how this would be incredibly useful (I can never remember what ffmpeg flags I need) but I also just,,,,, I have this immediate uncomfortable reaction to the thought of just piping AI output into the terminal with the express purpose of not needing to know what the flags do. If the AI makes a mistake and the only way to catch it is to know what the flags do anyways, I think this becomes less usef…

This reminds me how people in lesswrong community were arguing whether it's inevitable that when general AI is created - it will escape its sandbox. There were elaborate schemas how it will persuade or blackmail the scientists to let it out. In practice it won't need to, somebody will make a plugin that uses it to download funny images or highlight code in console :)

Post by still_grokking » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 4:54 PM UTC

fyloraspit wrote: post #39

IshKebab wrote: post #36

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I sort of agree wrt quoting. Most people's solution is just "well don't use spaces or dollars or whatever in your filenames!" which is obviously shit. But on the other hand I think the ultimate blame lies with Bash for being so shitily designed that you can make basic quoting mistakes and it works most of the time. Real programming languages don't have that issue.

It's not a real programming language tho

Post by still_grokking » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 5:00 PM UTC

synu wrote: post #60

bheadmaster wrote: post #58

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So does Java, yet it is still considered a real programming language...

I always have to share this video on threads like these: https://youtu.be/kdMG40wUCm4 . Maybe you’ve seen it - interview with a senior Java developer in 2022.

Post by monkpit » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 5:13 PM UTC

Calzifer wrote: post #51

rpsw wrote: post #47

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lsof is available on Mac's by default, ss is not, so significantly smaller depends on your platform I guess. I believe ss is not available for Mac at all, where as lsof is widely available.

Well that is one of the problems when suggesting shell snippets. There are many similar ways to do the same thing¹ but most have some caveats or work on one system but not the other. And when asking the AI there might be not enough context to provide a good answer. In this case the AI answer might be somewhat better for Mac. On Linux I have more often manually installed lsof than ss (iproute2). Maybe Mac provides the…

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 5:39 PM UTC

Calzifer wrote: post #16

Bash / Shell is one of the last things I would trust a typical AI considering how much bad shell code/examples exist out there. (it always surprise me how many unquoted variables exist in most shell scripts; quoting fixes many problems, doesn't hurt and still developers are often to lazy to do it) The example in the project readme is imo already a bad example. $ ai ask "Check process running on port" Answer Command i…