That is a great description of current AI, actually. Love it.

Some people are amazed the dog can write poetry. Some people complain that the poetry isn't good enough.

Of what use is a dog that writes bad poetry? It's gone from being a dog to being an annoying dog.

It's like having the power to turn water into gross, undrinkable wine.

Good point, "mb" as used in the linked example would mean "millibit", which is almost certainly not what they meant.

You're not wrong, but also there is value in a tool that will behave the same way consistently and has been vetted. I wouldn't be so down on this work.

It is a bit of a catch-22, a plain english wrapper opens up the tool to be more widely used by novices, but also prevents those novices from actually learning the tool.

Not really, how are they prevented from using the manual or the copious amounts of examples out there?

Memorising command line options beyond the absolute basics has rarely been helpful to me. And I use FreeBSD, where arcane commands are plentiful.

Nothing, but after becoming reliant on an LLM they may simply become overwhelmed and give up once they outgrow it's capabilities. I've seen this happen to several people I know.

It's not so much being down on the work, as it is being down on 30 years of keyboard junkies proclaiming "Plain English" interfaces.

One piece of feedback: your website is asking to create an account before giving me any idea of what it is or what I'd get.

You may run into people who are not willing to share their email address without an idea of what they'll get in return.

That’s fair feedback, and I agree.

The current flow is intentionally minimal, but it does front-load the account wall more than it should. A better approach is letting people explore at least one system or environment before asking for an email, so they can decide whether it’s worth engaging further.

I’m treating this as an experiment in how people prefer to encounter complex systems, and this is useful signal. I’ll adjust the entry point so the value is clearer before any signup.

Appreciate you calling it out.

The new problem with GDP is we can no longer trust government numbers.

1 - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-seeks-to-fire-bu...

I found a typo: "Apply fined grained access control to keep your shared content under control." should be "fine-grained access control".

There: https://www.filestash.app/smb-client.html

It's fun! Congrats!

Yes it's fun. One small note, for the outside temp you can use 3K, the cosmic microwave background radiation temperature. Not that it would meaningfully change your conclusion.

So cool! I made pawk [1] to get some of the same features, but yours is better! Congrats!

[1] https://github.com/jean-philippe-martin/pawk

I am not the author haha. Just someone who found and really liked that library.

We would believe that except that car companies are known for lying about diesel emissions.