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When I tried pi.dev (I only used chatgpt before) and told it "add all this scripts I developed over the last couple of years to automate my job as skills".

I love to automate things in bash scripts and these llms just can use them very effectively. It was also surprising how they derive knowledge from those scripts. If you get A from a B uuid, they kind of get the relationship. I am super vague in my request and this thing knows what I am referring to. After some months it's still mind-blowing.


AIs are really good with Bash. I think it’s because Bash doesn’t rely as much as organization and context.

> "Don't use a LLM for that part, it won't be reliable enough".

You should now ask if the LLM is reliable enough when it says that.

Jokes aside, how is this a major step he is missing? He is using those skills to be more efficient. How important is going against agentskills.io guidance?


Because he's asking the LLM to interpret those instructions to drive his process. If the skills are poorly defined or incomplete then the process will be as well, and the LLM may misinterpret, choose to ignore, or add its own parts.

Skills are just another kind of programming, albeit at a pretty abstract level. A good initial review process for a Skill is to ask the LLM what it thinks the Skill means and where it thinks there are holes. Just writing it and then running it isn't sufficient.

Another tip is to give the Skill the same input in multiple new sessions - to stop state carryover - collect the output from each session and then feed it back into the LLM and ask it to assess where and why the output was different.


Oh dear, I thought you were merely sarcastic in your first comment. But you seem to have been fully converted to the LLM-religion, and actually believe they actually "think" or "know" anything?


People have applied "think" to the actions of software for decades. Of course it LLM's don't "think" in the human sense, but "What the output of the model indicates in an approximate way about its current internal state" is a bit long winded...


Maybe people who dont understand technology did, I can see that - my granpa also thought the computer was thinking when the windows hourglass showed up. Today maybe its the case again with the folks who dont know anything about it - you know that meme - ChatGPT always gives me correct answers for the domains I am not an expert in!


I have some bash_aliases and scripts.

The king of all alias is fixup, which commits everything and fixes up the commit with the previous one.

Another script just goes over the changes and allows me to add/skip/restore.

Then I can pipe the log to another script that will analyze tags and tell me what is not yet in prod.

cli is hard... but it composes. I want to know that CLI as well as possible. And I don't want to start from scratch each few years with a new UI / concept.


In my country, "hard lines" are next month's "soft lines". So any system that requires those is a problem.


Rough numbers look good.

But the hyper specialized geek that has 4 kids and has to pay back a credit for his house (that he bought according to his high salary) will have a hard time doing some gardening, let's say. And there are quite a few of those geeks. I don't know if we'll have enough gardens (owned by non geeks!)

It's like cards are switched: those having the upper socioeconomic class will get thrown to the bottom. And that looks like a generation lost.


building on what you're saying, it isn't as though we are paying physical labor well, and adding more people to the pool isn't going to make the pay better.

About the most optimistic is that demand for goods and services will decrease because something like 80% of consumer spending is coming from folks that earn over $200k, and those are the folks ai is targeting. Who pays for the ai after this is still a mystery to me


That XKCD is very funny. BTW:

> You are pointing to Waldo on a page... on a specific date. Because of tectonic plates movement.


> If the surgeon were the father of the man (the one who died), then the cousin couldn’t be his son (unless there's some very unusual family structure going on involving double relationships, which riddles don’t usually intend).

> Therefore, the only straightforward explanation is:

> The surgeon is the cousin’s parent — specifically, his mother.

Imagine a future where this reasoning in a trial decides whether you go to jail or not.


> will nonetheless make people's lives better

Probably not the lives of translators or graphic designers or music compositors. They will have to find new jobs. As llm prompt engineers, I guess.


Graphic designers I think are safe, at least within organizations that require a cohesive brand strategy. Getting the AI to respect all of the previous art will be a challenge at a certain scale.

Fiverr graphic designers on the other hand…


Getting graphic designers to use the design system that they invented is quite a challenge too if I'm honest... should we really expect AI to be better than people? Having said that AI is never going to be adept at knowing how and when to ignore the human in the loop and do the "right" thing.


There are people generating mostly consistent AI porn models using LORA, the same strategy could be used to bias the model towards consistent output for corporate branding.

Even if its not perfect, many startups will be using AI to generate their branding for the first 5 years and put others out of a job.

Right now the tools are primitive, but leave it to the internet to pioneer the way with porn...


absolutely a solvable problem even with no tech advances


We will always need to work in the fields. With agricultural machinery we'll be doing way more than we were before.

if the amount of new offer is not paired by demand, there will be pain.


> It's only "addictive" because it's fun

This is not true. Almost everything in mobile phones exploit human brain biases to keep us hooked. It's about regaining control of what you want to use your time for.


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