• @[email protected]
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    462 days ago

    I don’t normally say this, but the AI tools I’ve used to help me write bash were pretty much spot on.

    • @[email protected]
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      202 days ago

      Yes, with respect to the grey bearded uncles and aunties; as someone who never “learned” bash, in 2025 I’m letting a LLM do the bashing for me.

      • @SpaceNoodle
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        382 days ago

        Until the magic incantations you don’t bother to understand don’t actually do what you think they’re doing.

        • @[email protected]
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          142 days ago

          I wonder if there’s a chance of getting rm -rf /* or zip bombs. Those are definitely in the training data at least.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 day ago

            The classic rm -rf $ENV/home where $ENV can be empty or contain spaces is definitely going to hit someone one day

        • @kameecoding
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          22 days ago

          Yes, I have never wrote a piece of code that didn’t do what I thought it would before LLMs, no sir.

    • @SpaceNoodle
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      2 days ago

      Yeah, an LLM can quickly parrot some basic boilerplate that’s showed up in its training data a hundred times.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 days ago

      For building a quick template that I can tweak to my needs, it works really well. I just don’t find it to be an intuitive scripting language.

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      11 day ago

      If When the script gets too complicated, AI could also convert it to Python.

      I tried it once at least, and it did a pretty good job, although I had to tell it to use some dedicated libraries instead of calling programs with subprocess.