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Correct, but again this is one of the things LLMs are consistently good at and an actual time saver.

I'm very much an AI skeptic, but it's undeniable that LLMs have obsoleted 30 years worth of bash scripting knowledge - any time I think "I could take 5min and write that" an LLM can do it in under 30 seconds and adds a lot more input validation checks than I would in 5min. It also gets the regex right the first time, which is better than my grug brain for anything non-trivial.



https://www.base64decode.org/ is faster than ChatGPT to decode the base64.

And I truly hope nobody needs ChatGPT to tell them that running an unknown curl command is a very bad idea.

The problem is the waste of resources for such a simple task. No wonder we need so much more power plants.


Knowing that site exists, remembering that it does (and what it's called), going to a web browser, going to that site, and using it is faster than a tool that plenty of people have open constantly at this point?

Again, I am an AI skeptic and hate the power usage, but it's obvious why people turn to it in this scenario.




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