• rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    Half of Linux usage is on the text-based command line anyway, just what LLMs are good at.

    You are going to allow an LLM to run commands on your system?

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      4 months ago

      You could have a command that recommends commands and then you select them on a drop-down list.

      Alternatively if the dataset is verified you wouldn’t need to worry about it running dangerous commands, since it doesn’t know any. Or you could have a list of verified commands that run automatically and any command not on that list requires confirmation.

      But this is missing the point that most of the time I know exactly what command I want to run so adding a LLM Is quite useless. The reason so much of linux is still relying on commands is because for a lot of people (myself included) commands are quick and efficient.

      • RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        4 months ago

        You could have a command that recommends commands and then you select them on a drop-down list.

        Still dangerous. One character (even a space) might make a huge difference. You wouldn’t want a hallucinating probability matrix barf out a command and run it only half understanding what it does. By building it yourself, you get a better understanding.

        But this is missing the point that most of the time I know exactly what command I want to run so adding a LLM Is quite useless. The reason so much of linux is still relying on commands is because for a lot of people (myself included) commands are quick and efficient.

        100% agreed here.

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      4 months ago

      Maybe.

      Like, if I could type “extract the audio of this video and re-encode it as a medium quality MP3, break up the audio into 30 consecutive tracks” in a shell, and the next line was populated with the appropriate ffmpeg command, but not yet executed, I could quickly look over the command, nothing looks fishy, so I go ahead and run the command.

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          4 months ago

          It’s no different than what the internet has been doing for us for decades. People tell us commands to run, we use our best judgement, maybe check a couple things, and then run the commands. If the internet suggests a command or a LLM suggests a command, what’s the difference?