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I was surprised that Whiz could use tools like ffmpeg even though it tells ChatGPT to only use available shell commands. I asked it to "convert demo.mov to an mp4" and "cut the first five seconds of demo.mp4" and it came back with the correct commands. I guess that was enough to allow it to assume ffmpeg is probably installed. Pretty cool!



Looking at the code, the system prompt says "You MUST NOT use functions that are not available." but apart from the OS info, it's not giving GPT any info on what commands are/aren't available, so I'd imagine it's a bit of a crapshoot.




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