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

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Post by abhagsain » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 7:04 AM UTC

I was constantly googling CLI commands so I built this small CLI tool with GPT3. You can ask for shell commands right from the CLI.

You'd need to use your own API KEY for this but it's pretty simple, instructions are in the README Not perfect but not bad either.

Show HN: Get answers for shell commands from GPT3 from your terminal
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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 7:04 AM UTC

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Post by kaapipo » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 7:31 AM UTC

Looks very cool!

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Post by stevebmark » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 7:39 AM UTC

The site doesn’t load on mobile (instant redirect back to GitHub page?) and there aren’t examples in the readme

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Post by manchmalscott » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 7:39 AM UTC

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 useful.

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Post by xlii » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 7:39 AM UTC

The premise seems cool but the demo page isn’t working and single example isn’t really something that would convince me to go with full API registration.

If that’s reasonably stable and can produce more obscure commands (I’d love to see for example how it fares with more complex git usage) that’d be really great tool to have.

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Post by bheadmaster » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 8:04 AM UTC

I personally don't like the concept of having my terminal send my commands to a remote service, so I'll pass. Hopefully an open source model comes around soon so stuff like this can be implemented locally.

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Post by abhagsain » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 8:09 AM UTC

kaapipo wrote: post #3

Looks very cool!

thank you so much

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Post by abhagsain » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 8:18 AM UTC

stevebmark wrote: post #4

The site doesn’t load on mobile (instant redirect back to GitHub page?) and there aren’t examples in the readme

My bad, there's no UI to try it from. You'd need to install it. I added the subdomain for easy to the github repo (as the URL is easy to remember). I'll remove it from the README as it's misleading. So sorry again.

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Post by abhagsain » Fri, Nov 18, 2022, 8:20 AM UTC

bheadmaster wrote: post #7

I personally don't like the concept of having my terminal send my commands to a remote service, so I'll pass. Hopefully an open source model comes around soon so stuff like this can be implemented locally.

That sounds great!