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		ahungry on Nov 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A coder considers the waning days of the craft Bravo - for these simple things, typing in a GPT prompt or search query is more work than the command. Even things like "what flags to use with ffmpeg" are a shell reverse-history search away, assuming one has ever used them in the past.

chrnola on Nov 14, 2023 [–]

That’s quite the assumption! You’d also have to know that your shell maintains a history and know how to search it. None of these things are obvious to those who do not already know them. We all had to learn at some point.

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