[datastoat]

It'd be fun (and a bit scary) to use an LLM as a shell replacement. We'd give it the history of our commands as per the recent post [0], as well as their outputs, and it would turn natural-language commands into proper bash. The xkcd comic [1] would be solved instantly. "Tar these files, please." "Delete all the temporary files but please please please don't delete anything else." I'm sure people have implemented this, but my searching isn't good enough to find it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38965003

[1] https://xkcd.com/1168/

[floren]

I have briefly told ChatGPT 3.5 about the syntax of a CLI tool I wrote, then asked it to perform a few operations. It did a surprisingly good job, even when I said "and format the result as JSON with fields named Command and Description where the latter explains what the command does".

If I was to actually use this in a real system, I'd definitely build a restricted shell to execute in, and probably run it inside a Docker container with just the essential files mapped in, because I don't trust an LLM not to describe what it's doing as "updating timestamps" or whatever but actually the command is "rm -rf ~"