Re:Use Long Options in Scripts
by xyzzy9563 on Saturday March 22, 2025 @09:57AM
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You can always copy+paste it into an LLM and have it explain the options in 5 seconds.
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Re:Use Long Options in Scripts
by mplanchard on Saturday March 22, 2025 @10:59AM
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I like how programmers are all about locality of reasoning and avoiding context switches until the context switch is “go paste it into an LLM”
Just wait 5 years when 99% of code is written by LLM agents.
Re:Use Long Options in Scripts
by timewizard on Saturday March 22, 2025 @02:33PM
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I just use the man page. Which happily describes all the options in an easily digestible format that does not require either an ineternet connection or massive amounts of power to be wasted on a result that is almost certainly copyrighted and flat out stolen from it's original creator.
I am of a generation where I see these uses of LLMs as exceptionally lazy or showy. Your ready use of a "chatbot" is not an attribute to broadcast like this.