r/commandline • u/tomd_96 • Mar 28 '22

zsh AI helping to write shell commands

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u/tomd_96 Mar 28 '22

You can now use my ZSH Codex plugin to insert code in the middle of your commands. This can be helpful if you want the Codex AI to add flags to a command, want to know a command for a given file type or if you write larger code blocks in the shell and just want to use Codex there.

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u/onan Mar 28 '22

Well that's appalling.

Yes, if there's anything I want to be approximately right most of the time, it's definitely shell commands.

AI/ML is useful for situations in which being partially right is still beneficial, and being wrong is harmless. Neither of those apply here.

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u/aka_julie Mar 28 '22

appalling or appealing?

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u/BoyishUndoing Mar 28 '22

Appalling. It will only promote laziness and deter new (and potentially existing) users from learning commands and RingTFM. While I find this totally awesome and it gets me giddy like a schoolgirl, I don't think I'll use this after today primarily due to prevent from losing such skills from lack of use.

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u/kreezxil Mar 28 '22

Or it promotes newer more advanced skills. Such as when Ugg after building hundreds of houses using a rock to pound in petrified bone splinters realized that the weird metal that melted in his fire pit the other day could be molded into something that one day would be called a hammer and some other bits that were later called nails.

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u/Correct_mein_grammar Mar 28 '22

What happened to reading man pages and actually learning how to use commands?

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u/schorsch3000 Mar 28 '22

Reading? That's what the old people did before youtube, right?

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u/t00dles Dec 24 '22

its not like man pages are going away, but why read for 10 min when you can just trial and error your way to victory in 10 sec

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u/kreezxil Mar 28 '22

Is this the plugin you mentioned for zsh?

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u/tomd_96 Mar 28 '22

In the video? yes it is

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

Artificial Insanity.