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Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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Post by speedgoose »

sinlar-multiple wrote: post #49
speedgoose wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These AIs can generate new features, it’s much more powerful than copy pasting existing text snippets.

> These AIs can generate new features Citation needed

Here you go:

Zhu, Q., & Luo, J. (2022). Generative Pre-Trained Transformer for Design Concept Generation: An Exploration. Proceedings of the Design Society, 2, 1825-1834. doi:10.1017/pds.2022.185

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/proceedings-of-the-d...

It’s just one I picked randomly, I didn’t feel like doing a literature review.

Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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Post by sph »

CPLX wrote: post #74
akkartik wrote: post #69

"The new Power had no weapons on the ground, nothing but a comm laser. That could not even melt steel at the frigate’s range. No matter, the laser was aimed, tuned civilly on the retreating warship’s receiver. No acknowledgment. The humans knew what communication would bring. The laser light flickered here and there across the hull, lighting smoothness and inactive sensors, sliding across the ship’s ultradrive spines…

Reading this reminds me of the enormous chasm that exists between the vast majority of overwrought poorly written science fiction like this, and the absolute best of the genre.

Reminds me of that infinite pain I felt in my soul when I resigned to the idea that Blindsight by Peter Watts could be a fantastic Scifi book, but its writing is so obtuse and impenetrable I am permanently locked out of its story.

Anyone care to recommend a dark scifi book about utterly alien lifeforms or worlds, that are more accessible to someone with average IQ?

https://youtu.be/DnF7LMkGxhY

Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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Post by skocznymroczny »

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

Or enter a valid tar command on first try.

Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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Post by jchw »

Seems very useful. Even as a very long-time user of the CLI, there are times I'll need to google how to do something, either because I forgot how, or I simply never knew. But honestly, Google has really never sucked more. I suspect GPT-3 and Codex are actually better at giving actually relevant and useful answers now, even if they're confidently wrong sometimes.

I think you'd still want to be knowledgeable to use a tool like this, so you can know when you're about to hose your system :) But I think it's more useful than some folks are letting on.

Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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Post by indymike »

hcks wrote: post #75
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.

This is just wishful thinking of course. The shell itself is an outdated piece of technology that unfortunately has to be used for historical reasons. I’m glad we now see a way to work past it.

Please point me to something better.

Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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Post by ilaksh »

wffurr wrote: post #63
ilaksh wrote: post #57

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Here's the one I built: Get an OpenAI API key. Then `npm i -g askleo` and set env var OPENAI_API_KEY `> askleo how large is the average dog` `> runleo list files in reverse date order` Note that runleo just executes it without confirmation.

"runleo just executes it without confirmation" I'm feeling lucky! This is one step beyond `curl | sh`. Bold move.

It's very unlikely to randomly delete your hard disk, and it's easy to set up a VM or container for development..also it may be a command that you use all the time but can't remember the syntax, and it's just retrieving information.

There are a lot of cases where displaying the command first and asking for a confirmation is just an unnecessary step.

Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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Post by varelse »

gitfan86 wrote: post #76
akkartik wrote: post #73

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Yes, though I don't remember any of it 15+ years later. Do you have a (spoiler-free) reason to reread it? :)

It is about a lab engineered virus that spreads around the world. I had read it long before the pandemic.

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Re: Show HN: GPT-3 Powered Shell

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Post by akkartik »

sph wrote: post #82
CPLX wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reading this reminds me of the enormous chasm that exists between the vast majority of overwrought poorly written science fiction like this, and the absolute best of the genre.

Reminds me of that infinite pain I felt in my soul when I resigned to the idea that Blindsight by Peter Watts could be a fantastic Scifi book, but its writing is so obtuse and impenetrable I am permanently locked out of its story. Anyone care to recommend a dark scifi book about utterly alien lifeforms or worlds, that are more accessible to someone with average IQ? https://youtu.be/DnF7LMkGxhY

Yeah, Blindsight is great in many ways but the aliens aren't really the centerpiece. Once they get too alien you just get noise.

As it happens, I recently inventoried my favorite aliens and eliminated the ones that were too humanized and also not understandable to people. I might be missing something obvious, but the one that sticks in my mind 2 years after I read it is:

Pandora's Star

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