Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid

• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I am aware of it but it doesn’t always exist for my exact needs or I don’t need an app for a one time job.

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  • utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The command line is precisely trying to address this, providing not apps but commands that are flexible and can be stitched together so that most needs are cover. Think of it like Lego blocks made out of text, that do stuff to your files.

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    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Ty, do you have a site I can read up on this and what is available?

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      • utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Depends how you learn and what are your goals but I can recommend :

        • to try right NOW risk free www.terminaltutor.com
        • have a cool booklet wizardzines.com/zines/bite-size-command-line/ and wizardzines.com/zines/bite-size-bash/ with matching examples github.com/jvns/shell-examples

        … yet IMHO the real fun comes when you apply YOUR commands to YOUR files.

        So yes, please do try in a safe sandbox first then when you want, when you are not rushed by a project start a terminal right there from the comfort of your desktop, then PLAY with your files after doing a backup. Trust me it won’t just be fun, it will be truly empowering.

        When you get stuck, come back here and do ask.

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’s what LLMs largely pull from.

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  • utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Exactly

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      And LLMs can help find those FOSS projects and fill in the gaps in their documentation.

      I’m well aware of the copyright issues here and LLMs can make it easier to violate copyright, whether it’s protected by a proprietary or a FOSS license, but that’s up to the user of the LLM to decide where their boundaries are (and how much legal risk to accept). If you’re generating entire projects, you’ll probably have problems, but if you’re generating examples on how to accomplish a task with an existing tool, you’re probably fine.

      LLMs are useful tools, but like any tool they can be misused. FOSS is great, LLMs are great, use both appropriately.

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      • utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Typically LLMs aren’t a problem with FOSS with licensing as pretty much anything and everything is free to use, remix, etc.

        What is more of a problem is hallucinations, imagining using the wrong rm -rf ~/ command without understanding the consequence, but arguably that’s hard to predict. What will always be a problem though, no matter the model, is how much energy was put into it… so that, in fine, it makes the actual documentation and some issues on StackOverflow slightly more accessible because one can do semantic search rather than full text search. Does one really need to run billion parameters models in the cloud on a remote data center for that?

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