Like programming in bash
Like programming in bash


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I don't normally say this, but the AI tools I've used to help me write bash were pretty much spot on.
47 0 ReplyYes, with respect to the grey bearded uncles and aunties; as someone who never "learned" bash, in 2025 I'm letting a LLM do the bashing for me.
24 0 ReplyUntil the magic incantations you don't bother to understand don't actually do what you think they're doing.
36 0 ReplySounds like a problem for future me. That guy hates me lol
39 0 ReplyYeah fuck that guy
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In fairness, this also happens to me when I write the bash script myself 😂
11 0 ReplyI wonder if there's a chance of getting
rm -rf /*
or zip bombs. Those are definitely in the training data at least.13 0 ReplyThe classic
rm -rf $ENV/home
where$ENV
can be empty or contain spaces is definitely going to hit someone one day2 0 Reply
Yes, I have never wrote a piece of code that didn't do what I thought it would before LLMs, no sir.
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Yeah, an LLM can quickly parrot some basic boilerplate that's showed up in its training data a hundred times.
14 0 ReplyIfWhen the script gets too complicated, AI could also convert it to Python.I tried it once at least, and it did a pretty good job, although I had to tell it to use some dedicated libraries instead of calling programs with subprocess.
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