~> how about a nice game of chess

April 19, 2021 3:49 PM

How to use OpenAI's API to turn task descriptions into command-line instructions

Alternate tagline: "It's like Alexa/Siri/Cortana for your terminal!"

posted by They sucked his brains out! (12 comments total)

I feel compelled to remind you that computers don’t feel guilt or remorse or care if you have backups.
posted by mhoye at 4:14 PM on April 19, 2021 [9 favorites]

To be clear, I'm not trying to convince you that having an AI model figure out what Linux command to run based on your written description is a good idea

That's good.
posted by biogeo at 4:15 PM on April 19, 2021 [3 favorites]

Ha!

I rather hope the —live-dangerously flag causes it to respond "Sometimes you get what you need" and uninstall itself.
posted by clew at 4:16 PM on April 19, 2021 [1 favorite]

It has an appropriate warning: "⚠️ DO NOT USE THIS SHELL IF YOU DO NOT WANT DATA LOSS OR OTHER NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ACTUALLY EMAILING JEFF BEZOS ⚠️."
posted by RichardP at 4:41 PM on April 19, 2021 [3 favorites]

Make sure you only run it as sudo, and default it to --live-dangerously

(They get extra points for having that flag)
posted by Mayor West at 5:12 PM on April 19, 2021

create untraceable aws bot army to spearphish jeff bezos's bank and transfer 20% to IRS

posted by flabdablet at 5:13 PM on April 19, 2021 [4 favorites]

When I first saw the description of this, I immediately thought it was an iteration on my favorite bash script, The Fuck. It would make sense--fuck has a pretty limited range of problems it can autocorrect, and having it learn from a master agent somewhere would be awesome. People already think I'm floridly insane when I'm screen-sharing and go to push something to git without setting an upstream branch (or whatever) and immediately react by TYPING rather than exclaiming "fuck!", but this way it actually fixes it.
posted by Mayor West at 5:17 PM on April 19, 2021 [5 favorites]

For God’s sake use Google and your brain and not a neural network if you want to know the proper git command.
posted by sjswitzer at 7:02 PM on April 19, 2021 [1 favorite]

Awe look. It's the international banking system.
posted by metametamind at 9:01 PM on April 19, 2021 [2 favorites]

"never use this" is my favourite admonition to see in a manpage.
posted by entity447b at 2:00 AM on April 20, 2021

>create untraceable aws bot army to spearphish jeff bezos's bank and transfer 20% to IRS

This exists -- it has a wonderful AWS product name -- but I can't for the life of me remember what it is. 'Blackfish Manager'? 'Finegate Hub'? Maybe it's 'Amazon Contribution Manager'?
posted by k3ninho at 2:28 AM on April 20, 2021

>print me out a million dollars bill.nofoolin'
posted by Faint of Butt at 3:12 AM on April 20, 2021