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I don't normally say this, but the AI tools I've used to help me write bash were pretty much spot on.
~~If~~ When the script gets too complicated, AI could also convert it to Python.
I tried it once at least, and it did a pretty good job, although I had to tell it to use some dedicated libraries instead of calling programs with subprocess.
Yeah, an LLM can quickly parrot some basic boilerplate that's showed up in its training data a hundred times.
For building a quick template that I can tweak to my needs, it works really well. I just don’t find it to be an intuitive scripting language.
Yes, with respect to the grey bearded uncles and aunties; as someone who never "learned" bash, in 2025 I'm letting a LLM do the bashing for me.
Until the magic incantations you don't bother to understand don't actually do what you think they're doing.
Yes, I have never wrote a piece of code that didn't do what I thought it would before LLMs, no sir.
In fairness, this also happens to me when I write the bash script myself 😂
I wonder if there's a chance of getting
rm -rf /*or zip bombs. Those are definitely in the training data at least.The classic
rm -rf $ENV/homewhere$ENVcan be empty or contain spaces is definitely going to hit someone one daySounds like a problem for future me. That guy hates me lol
Yeah fuck that guy