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"Hey llm how do I open this file?"

It's kinda ludicrous to think we'll lose the ability for something so simple.




Truly, I will miss the days of goggling for tar commands when I can instead ask an llm.


Why use kilobytes of text and a handful of clock cycles when I can use terabytes of weights and thousands of teraflop-days of GPU farms to achieve the same result?


cache goes brrrr


> It's kinda ludicrous to think we'll lose the ability for something so simple.

Sorry, but I already have to google each time I want to figure out how to open various file formats.

"Google, what ffmpeg flags do I use to convert this .flv file to .mp4", "what are the flags to losetup or kpartx to mount 'disk.img' as a loopback device?", "how do I extract an '.ab' backup from 'adb backup'?"

These are all things I googled before llm.




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