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csdvrx on Dec 13, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bash one-liners for LLMs

If humans are processing the output, I agree with you.

But for an AI (or a script running commands), a bunch of floating point numbers in a table will get you more reliability and better results.

verdverm on Dec 13, 2023 [–]

This thread had dropped the AI context up to this point and instead focussed on why CLIs have lost popularity and preference with humans.

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