Re:A Guide to Local Coding Models
by scottyeager on Monday December 22, 2025 @02:41AM
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I'm not the OP, but I did build a tool that I use in the same way: https://github.com/scottyeager/Pal
Actually for many cases the LLM already knows enough. For more obscure cases, piping in a --help output is also sometimes enough.
i guess op means:
$ man tool | ai <how do I do this with the tool>
where ai could be a simple shell script combining the argument with stdin
Yes, I use simonw's `llm` for that: https://github.com/simonw/llm
Example:
$ man tar | llm "how do I extract test.txt from a tar.gz"
Could you please elaborate on this? Do I get this right that you can set up your your command line so that you can pipe something to a command that sends this something together with a question to an LLM? Or did you just mean that metaphorically? Sorry if this is a stupid question.