Except, I intentionally don’t use either form because they don’t extend nicely (and I dislike using flags when I could use another pipe segment or positional arguments when I could use standard input). I can iterate quickly by adding pipeline segments on top of the basic formula, because all of the segments have the same general shape and “calling convention”.
Finally, because I’ve built up familiarity with the shell over my career, I can come up with this formula as fast as I can type it. At this point, ChatGPT would slow me down: (1) because this sort of thing is basically muscle memory and (2) I have to actually think about the code ChatGPT produces to verify it is correct, which is almost as difficult as producing it in the first place.
