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The Rise of Whatever

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627 points cratermoon | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 04:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.484s | source
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icameron ◴[04 Jul 25 05:52 UTC] No.44461506[source]▶
Love this writing. One paragraph hit very close to home. I used to be the guy who could figure out obscure scripts by google-fu and rtfm and willpower. Now that skill has been completely obliterated by LLMs and everyone’s doing it- except it’s mostly whatever

> I don’t want to help someone who opens with “I don’t know how to do this so I asked ChatGPT and it gave me these 200 lines but it doesn’t work”.

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1. wiseowise ◴[04 Jul 25 08:26 UTC] No.44462411[source]▶
> I used to be the guy who could figure out obscure scripts by google-fu and rtfm and willpower. Now that skill has been completely obliterated by LLMs and everyone’s doing it- except it’s mostly whatever

And thank fuck it happened. All of shell and obscure Unix tools that require brains molded in 80s to use on a day to day basis should’ve been superseded by something user friendly long time ago.