AI in the CLI seems like a mistake

The Github CLI is questionable quality wise. The Copilot extension though...woof. I did not expect to hate this so much. Wow. Ugh. Never again.

I am trying Warp now...will report back.

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S/O Ph4se0n3 for the awesome edit 🙏

[dj_chateau]

Considering how awful AI seems to be with Powershell, the idea of Co-Pilot in the CLI seems like a terrible idea.

[unowenwasholo]

Theo so enraged by this tool he forgot to ask it why people aren't subscribed yet.

[totallynotgad]

gotta love theo complaining about the gh cli then immediately fighting with ffmpeg

ofcourse ffmpeg is complicated because it does complicated things, and the gh cli is complicated out of spite, so minor diffrences

[Wampa]

This reminds me of an anecdote I read years ago about the perils of DWIM - Do What I Mean.

Some person some years ago developed a command line shell that could fix some of his common mistakes and boost his productivity with aliases and predefined actions. It worked well, until another person wanted to try it on his own machine.
This other person had a good habit of preserving old files by appending a "$" sign to the end of the filenames, and purging them at the end of the day using the equivalent of rm -r **/*\$. When he tried to use the DWIM shell, he was told to just "delete *$" and it would remove the files matching the pattern recursively. And so it did. Until one day, when he didn't make any backup files, but ran "delete *$" out of habit. The shell didn't find any files matching the pattern, so it assumed that it was a typo, "fixed" the pattern by removing the "$" character, and ran the command again, now as "delete *".

[瑠ちゃん]

I can't agree with you complaining about showing your IP. It's a command line... there's no such thing as 'click to see'. It's also not really something you should be streaming without already knowing the commands anyway.

[Viviko]

So, <command> -h doesn’t do this already?

[bellaambiens]

Would have been as fast to google the question

[not_hehe__]

"gh copilot explain" is the rich man's man

[AloisMahdal]

We said we wanted a faster horse. Instead we got CLI googling, but worse.

[EraYaN]

I mean you did pick a non-trivial audio source, the 7.1.4 channel layout is going to blow up almost any target container and codec without a bunch of hand holding. It's just the nature of cinema codecs that they are a pain to deal with no matter what, besides even professionals can't really agree on the right downmixing approach so AI would never do it correctly.

[morphx]

6:19 I wonder how many ppl, other than streamers, would be bothered by that

[superironbob]

A video about a bad CLI that segues into another difficult CLI.

[Fan_of_Ado]

AI for commands is terrible. I wrote an earlier version of Github Copilot CLI (I called it dunno) which provided similar functionality in the CLI. It ended wiping my drive with an rsync command.

[dunkyl]

"ghcs" when i have multiple haskells
"ghce" glasglow haskell but energy efficient
Only thing in brain when i hear that

[scrapsplaysgames]

Glad to see I'm not missing out on anything by not spending money on Copilot

[carloslfu]

Theo: Build me a rocket.
AI: 🚀
Theo: This sucks!

[bholmesdev]

The level of rage feels like I’m watching an old Game Grumps clip. Honestly here for it

[akam]

Theo: "I'm gonna throw them straight into hardmode and see how they do with FFMPEG"

Copilot to Bill Gates: "Daddy! The man in the mustache is being mean to me! 😭😭😭"

[LHCB]

Edit: looks like you can't delimit code by grave either 19:38

Really liked the video. Watching you actually go through, troubleshoot, and talk through it is both entertaining and helpful.

Edit 2: Maybe they'll add in triple grave to interpret code blocks with line breaks?

[qwfp]

This video was everything but what I expected it to be. But I learned new things about ffmpeg, so I'm not complaining lol