I can't believe I've become the "just use the command line" girl, but here we are.
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I can't believe I've become the "just use the command line" girl, but here we are.
Going on about how great it is for the accessibility of computing that an LLM can generate a webapp that does something slowly that I can do in the terminal quickly, makes me not want to pay attention to the rest of what you have to say.
We should be *making computers more accessible*, not papering over problems with energy-sucking plagiarism machines.
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βΏ Floby ππ·π¨replied to !!__NORA__!! last edited by
@noracodes there's already a cli tool that takes a prompt, generates a shell script and then runs it. It's very accessible except for the times it uninstalls grub for some reason
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!!__NORA__!!replied to βΏ Floby ππ·π¨ last edited by
@floby hahahahahaha
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@noracodes maybe we should idk make frameworks to make creating accessible interfaces to CLI software easier instead...
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And like, yeah, I'm a little annoyed about this. There is a limited amount of money and time to spend on developing dev and OS-layer tools - why are we spending that on unreliable, expensive, and socially irresponsible LLMs instead of building computers with composable, understandable, accessible interfaces?
Because of capitalism, I know, but we can at least not pretend that we enjoy it.
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@Lunaphied perhaps!!
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Xandra Granade π³οΈββ§οΈreplied to !!__NORA__!! last edited by
@noracodes One of the hills I will die on (which, as with most hills that I will die on is likely incorrect to a significant degree β this is me acknowledging a personal flaw!) is that terminals are actually pretty user-friendly in principle. It's the really important details about how each terminal works that tend to make them inaccessible; those have the advantage of being mostly solvable problems, and not inherent to the idea of terminals writ large.
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Xandra Granade π³οΈββ§οΈreplied to Xandra Granade π³οΈββ§οΈ last edited by
@noracodes At least one of those problems is that we largely tie output presentation to inputs β there's no inherent reason that accepting terminal commands means that only textual output should be returned, using at most box-drawing characters to hack together more graphical output.
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!!__NORA__!!replied to Xandra Granade π³οΈββ§οΈ last edited by
@xgranade and, indeed, so much of what I do on the terminal these days uses `dot` and `imagemagick` to pass images to `timg`, which, in many terminals, can straight up draw images on the terminal canvas!
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Jordan :ms_nonbinary_flag:βreplied to !!__NORA__!! last edited by
@noracodes Welcome to curmudgeon club, I just dropped your shoulder chip in the mail!
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@noracodes this is one of the reasons I like nushell. Unlike POSIX shells basic tasks like βget the first item in a listβare discoverable without either very careful reading or a search.
Poor usability combined with terrible search give me some sympathy for using an LLM as a shortcut for βI just want this to workβ
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!!__NORA__!!replied to Jordan :ms_nonbinary_flag:β last edited by
@jordan omg, I get to be in a club with you??
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@drbrain Oh yeah, absolutely. Nushell, expecially the stuff I've seen you do with it, is sooooo cool.