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Re:ChatGPT is rendering other people's chat history in the s... by reportgunner on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @05:13AM (#35244018)
Aha so AI is saving you time because it takes you a lot of time to run magick --help
Re:ChatGPT is rendering other people's chat history in the s... by soganess on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @06:17AM (#35244395)
Nope, nawh, no thank you. Not every tool gets to live rent-free in my head.

Sometimes I just want to do a thing once. Often times, I don't care how it is done, I just want the finished product. magick is not a single-purpose tool and has more options than switches/dials/gauges on a jumbo jet. Lord forbid I don't know what an affine transformation is, or how the canny algo work. Are those what I need? I don't know, now I'm googling it...

...Wait darnit, why was I looking this up, oh yeah, I need to batch edit a bunch of...

Re:ChatGPT is rendering other people's chat history in the s... by furyofantares on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @12:21PM (#35248398)
You ever notice how it takes students months to learn to be competent in a programming language in school, then months to learn their second one in school, but if instead of learning the second one in school they get a job and just dive right into the codebase of some unfamiliar language, they can work in it instantly?

That's how I feel about learning imagemagick by starting with a script that does the task I want instead of learning via magick --help.

I actually know quite a bit about the options available in imagemagick now, way faster than if I had dug into the docs myself, and I also instantly had a solution.