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Re:Valkey Turns One: How the Community Fork Left Redis in th... by nothrabannosir on Friday May 30, 2025 @09:32PM (#44141261)
Good lesson in when not to use chatgpt.

    $ docker run --rm -ti debian:trixie
    root@d12c52dcfee8:/# apt-get update && apt-get install -y valkey
    Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease [178 kB]
    ...

    root@d12c52dcfee8:/# valkey-server --version
    Valkey server v=8.1.1 sha=00000000:0 malloc=jemalloc-5.3.0 bits=64 build=13683752e517a7b6
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Re:Valkey Turns One: How the Community Fork Left Redis in th... by bhouston on Friday May 30, 2025 @09:46PM (#44141310)
Claude gives similarly complex answers for the same question with regards to valkey but simple solutions for redis:

https://claude.ai/share/ba9ecc54-5f21-4ec5-ab36-88e8eac38d1a

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Re:Valkey Turns One: How the Community Fork Left Redis in th... by MaKey on Friday May 30, 2025 @10:07PM (#44141393)
It seems like it went over your head that the package name is valkey, not valkey-server, so the instructions won't work. Why paste a long faulty AI response instead of linking to the concise official documentation?

https://valkey.io/topics/installation/

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Re:Valkey Turns One: How the Community Fork Left Redis in th... by accoil on Friday May 30, 2025 @10:15PM (#44141423)
URLs also don't resolve
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Re:Valkey Turns One: How the Community Fork Left Redis in th... by satvikpendem on Friday May 30, 2025 @10:12PM (#44141413)
You're missing the point. LLMs aren't the source of truth, the docs are.
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