Mastering curl: interactive text guide
Mastering curl: interactive text guide
Using curl as a substitute for man/help has made it one of my most used commands for me as of late:
curl cheat.sh/AnyLinuxCommandto view tldr/cheat tipsAlso great for the weather via
curl wttr.inHopefully more commands utilize this technique
Today I learned:
- curl development cycle has a cooldown after a freeze.
How cool is that?
Maybe its because I am tired but I don't get it, what does this mean?
I recently watched the 3.5-hour workshop Mastering the curl command line by Daniel Stenberg, the author of curl
I commend the author for watching and subsequently summarizing this into a blog article, but in the age of LLMs like ChatGPT I cannot be arsed anymore to memorize any of the arcane command line arguments of curl, ffmpeg and the like.
You don't have to memorize. Next time, you can just recall the commands by looking at manpages or this blog post again. You will already retain most concepts.
ChatGPT is cool, but it is wrong often enough that makes hard to trust. I don't want to be running the wrong command and suffering its consequences. I only resort to chatGPT when docs and web search do not give me an answer quickly. Even then, I try to verify chatGPT with docs before going forward.
I mean, we're talking curl here, I don't think a lot of suffering of consequences is happening. And man pages are often also not a great resource, throw everything at you, often don't contain examples. If I'm building an app that integrates curl or libcurl, oh yes I'm reading the doc. If I just need curl to do something quickly, the LLM output is perfectly fine.
but in the age of LLMs like ChatGPT I cannot be arsed anymore to memorize any of the arcane command line arguments of curl, ffmpeg and the like
you should beware trusting blindly any LLM output, they are often wrong
Who said anything about trusting blindly? We're talking curl here, not dd or fdisk. And in my experience the LLM gets it right most of the time, and even if it doesn't, it's often still faster to just test the outputted command and feed back the error than crawling through the manages.