This in general is the main reason for the ai surge.
Just dump the 2 sentence explanation into a prompt and hope something sensible comes from it rather than googling for half an hour.
Most of the time you don’t have to insert the man page, it’s already baked into the neural network model and filling the context window sometimes gives worse results.
At least for programming/Linux stuff, it often enough actually does deliver keywords, that you can use as jumping off points. The proposed solutions however…
Man pages are useful references but go ahead and learn how to use sed or awk from their man pages.
Yep.
That’s what the RTFM folks don’t seem to understand: if you didn’t even know, what you’re looking for, you can’t look it up.
This in general is the main reason for the ai surge. Just dump the 2 sentence explanation into a prompt and hope something sensible comes from it rather than googling for half an hour.
No, make it like this:
I have a problem with program x. Please tell me how i do y if I want z. Use this man page for reference:
[insert man page into promt py copy paste]
This gives way better results.
Most of the time you don’t have to insert the man page, it’s already baked into the neural network model and filling the context window sometimes gives worse results.
I noticed that mentioning commands you want gives good results e.g.:
If it’s more complicated, pasting parial scrript for LLM to finish gave better results (4 me),
than pure prompt text.
At least for programming/Linux stuff, it often enough actually does deliver keywords, that you can use as jumping off points. The proposed solutions however…
Or make
(gnu) make at least used to have pretty good
infopagesThat’s true. I’ve been there many times.