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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish51•2 months agoI don’t normally say this, but the AI tools I’ve used to help me write bash were pretty much spot on.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink17•edit-22 months agoYeah, an LLM can quickly parrot some basic boilerplate that’s showed up in its training data a hundred times.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink25•2 months agoYes, 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink41•2 months agoUntil the magic incantations you don’t bother to understand don’t actually do what you think they’re doing.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink14•2 months agoI wonder if there’s a chance of getting rm -rf /* or zip bombs. Those are definitely in the training data at least.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•2 months agoThe classic rm -rf $ENV/home where $ENV can be empty or contain spaces is definitely going to hit someone one day
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink41•2 months agoSounds like a problem for future me. That guy hates me lol
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink11•edit-22 months agoIn fairness, this also happens to me when I write the bash script myself 😂
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•2 months agoYes, I have never wrote a piece of code that didn’t do what I thought it would before LLMs, no sir.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•2 months agoFor building a quick template that I can tweak to my needs, it works really well. I just don’t find it to be an intuitive scripting language.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 months agoIf When 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.
I don’t normally say this, but the AI tools I’ve used to help me write bash were pretty much spot on.
Yeah, an LLM can quickly parrot some basic boilerplate that’s showed up in its training data a hundred times.
Yes, 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.
Until the magic incantations you don’t bother to understand don’t actually do what you think they’re doing.
I wonder if there’s a chance of getting
rm -rf /*or zip bombs. Those are definitely in the training data at least.The classic
rm -rf $ENV/homewhere$ENVcan be empty or contain spaces is definitely going to hit someone one daySounds like a problem for future me. That guy hates me lol
Yeah fuck that guy
In fairness, this also happens to me when I write the bash script myself 😂
Yes, I have never wrote a piece of code that didn’t do what I thought it would before LLMs, no sir.
For building a quick template that I can tweak to my needs, it works really well. I just don’t find it to be an intuitive scripting language.
IfWhen 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.