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In an enthusiastic tone of an AI enthusiast: Thankfully, now that we have ChatGPT, this feature is obsolete and the curl executable doesn't have to contain half-baked quines in it anymore!

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I'd never change --libcurl and gengetopt[0] with some output from some artificial thingy which babbles semi-truths which doesn't understand what it's doing.

They are deterministic tools which does what you want in a battle tested way, and will let me sleep well at night, which is an underappreciated feature of mature programs.

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt/gengetopt.html

Hurray for deterministic tools! Yes, there is no reason to risk using an LLM when you have a code generator that you can trust.

A code generator needs neither hundreds of GPUs nor an internet access to work. Not having to train a code generator in ethically questionable ways is also a huge plus, too.

First I've heard of gengetopt, thanks!

You're welcome! It's a great tool IMHO.

It's not a quine though, as it's not producing curl itself

In Italian, it's common to append 'ino' or 'ina' to something when you want to imply it's a smaller or cuter version of itself.

So 'quinino' might work here.

Reading this comment gave me a fever... I wish a plant could help me get better...

If you want something with more rhyme, poco-quine can also work, I guess, pq for short.

libpq is taken by PostgreSQL though ;)

One could argue it's a half-baked quine.

mm parbaked quine, just pop it in the compiler add a main driver and serve with some gengetopt for a delicious webcrawler!

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