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econcon | 1 year ago

I used to waste tons of time checking man pages for Linux utilities and programs. I always wondered why I had to memorize all those flags, especially when the chances of recalling them correctly were slim.

Not anymore! My brother created this amazing tool: Option-K. https://github.com/zerocorebeta/Option-K

Now, ofc there are people are my office who do not know how i remember all the commands, i don't.

Without AI, this wouldn't be possible. Just imagine asking AI to instantly deliver the exact command you need. As a result, I'm now able to create all the scripts I need 10x faster.

I still remember those stupid bash completion scripts, and trowing through bash history.

Dragging my feet each time i need to use rsync, ffmpeg, or even tar.

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AlexandrB|1 year ago

> Just imagine asking AI to instantly deliver the exact command you need.

How do you know that it delivered the "exact" command you needed without reading the documentation and understanding what the commands do? This has all the same dangers as copy/pasting someone's snippet from StackOverflow.

mewpmewp2|1 year ago

If you are using ffmpeg, you can glance at the command, see if it has a chance of working, then run it on a video file and open the resulting file in a video player, see if it matches your expectation.

It has made using ffmpeg and similar complex cli tools amazingly simple.

fwip|1 year ago

I'd even say that copying from StackOverflow is safer than using AI, because on most questions you've got peer review (upvotes, downvotes, and comments).