But doesn’t pressing the up arrow 10 times (and reading each command) waste both time and effort compared to just pressing 2 buttons?

Guy at work did a whole mini project with just LLMs and prompting. I asked him some questions about how it works and some implementation details, and he had no idea. Great. I’m going to have to maintain this thing, probably.

If you ask AI to create the shell of a class for you with 3 variables (two ints and one Vector as you defined elsewhere in your project), that’s different than saying “make me Facebook 2” and expecting everything to go well.

Ethics of current LLMs in a still-capitalist-materially society aside, the problem with AI is that management wants the robots to do all the work so their jobs become easier and their stocks go up. But that shit just doesn’t DO that. LLMs don’t think. They are statistical autocomplete. Programming is not trivial, no matter how much it may seem that way because we have trivialized as much of it as possible to make it useful.

…pressing the ‘up’ arrow ten times in a shell might let you avoid typing ‘ls’

I feel seen. But in my defense, that directory was like, 6 levels deep

except instead of ls it runs rm -rf /

Yes, and you can make a door by driving a car through a wall. The outcome may be less than optimal though.

Thought it was going to be ctrl+r

I didn’t know that one for years.

(Searches command history.)