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Speak for yourself, but I would not want to be beholden to AI for every trivial shell one-liner. "Sorry boss, ChatGPT is down, I can't count how many *.txt files are in this directory. See you tomorrow!"

I'll take the better syntax, thanks.

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To be fair, even local, small language models fare pretty well in such things (both explaining and writing).

Heaven forbid you read a man page. Even though Bash is weird, it's fully documented.

Documentation is useless if you don’t know what to look for. Which manual page do I open to find out what :(){:|:&};: means without already knowing?

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