[momentoftop]

> Anyone who says AI is useless never had to do the old method of cobbling together git and ffmpeg commands from StackOverflow answers.

It's useful for that yes, but I'd rather just live in a world where we didn't have such disasters of CLI that are git and ffmpeg.

LLMs are very useful for generating the obscure boilerplate needed because the underlying design is horrible. Relying on it means acquiescing to those terrible designs rather than figuring out redesigns that don't need the LLMs. For comparison, IntelliJ is very good at automating all the boilerplate generation that Java imposes on me, but I'd rather we didn't have boilerplate languages like Java, and I'd rather that IntelliJ's boilerplate generation didn't exist.

I fear in many cases that if an LLM is solving your problem, you are solving the wrong problem.

[skydhash]

I'm not arguing against the UX of those tools, but isn't this a case of the problem being a hard one to solve and people having different needs? ffmpeg has a lot of knobs, but that's just the nature of media conversion and manipulation, just like ImageMagick. I'm not against using LLMs for restricting the search space to a specific problems, but I'm often seeing people not even understanding the problem itself, just its apparent physicality.