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It's best not to dwell on it
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I've been using o3-mini mostly for
ffmpegcommand lines. And a bit ofsed. And it hasn't been terrible, it's a good way to learn stuff I can't decipher from the man pages. Not sure what else it's good for tbh, but at least I can test and understand what it's doing before running the code.In my experience plain old googling still better.
True, in many cases I'm still searching around because the explanations from humans aren't as simplified as the LLM. I'll often have to be precise in my prompting to get the answers I want which one can't be if they don't know what to ask.
And that's how you learn, and learning includes knowing how to check if the info you're getting is correct.
LLM confidently gives you easy to digest bite, which is plain wrong 40 to 60% of the time, and even if you're lucky it will be worse for you.
I'm in the kiddie pool, so I do look things up or ask what stuff does. Even though I looked at the man page for printf (printf.3 I believe), there was nothing about %*s for example, and searching for these things outside of asking LLM's is some times too hard to filter down to the correct answer. I'm on 2 lines of code per hour, so I'm not exactly rushing.
Shell scripting is quite annoying to be sure. Thinking of learning python instead.
Come on, I just googled printf bash and the first link gave me very comprehensive page on how it works and what parameters are and how to use them. It was 3 pages on my phone.
Please, don't get what I am about to say the wrong way, but if this was too complicated to you, this is your problem, not anything else. This is how people learn, there is no cheat code to it, you need to learn how to find the information and how to absorb it, and no robot will ever do it for you.
Bash is confusing mess, sure, but using random words genrtator to chew it for you will make things worse for you. It's very possible that you're on 2 lines per hour precisely because you're using LLM.
Are you me? I've been doing the exact same thing this week. How creepy.
we just had to create a new instance for coder7ZybCtRwMc, we'll merge it back soon
Totally didn't misread that as 'ffmpreg' nope.
I'm not judging. The LLM might though.