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Re:Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity) by worksonmine on Thursday March 26, 2026 @06:14AM (#47528620)
What is it like to be this proud of not learning the tools you use? Do you really think several paragraphs to an agent that may or may not be correct is the "easy" way compared to just checking the manual for the flag you want?

I will never understand people like you.

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Re:Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity) by faangguyindia on Thursday March 26, 2026 @07:16AM (#47529085)
Tools are means to end.

They don't matter much to me.

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Re:Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity) by bigstrat2003 on Thursday March 26, 2026 @08:22PM (#47537598)
That's fine to a point. But if you don't learn your tools, you will have rendered yourself unable to catch when the LLM gets things wrong (and it will get things wrong because it doesn't understand anything it touches). That, in turn, will mean that you're going to struggle to reach your desired ends but won't have the understanding to figure out what's wrong.

"Tools are just a means to an end" means you need to not get attached to a tool if it's not doing the job. It doesn't mean you don't need to understand your tools.

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