1. I feel the use of AWK, SED, GREP and Bash (to name a few) is general waning. I rarely see it outside of HN posts. I wish I were better at using it. Sometimes for a special need I’ll ask a LLM to write me a script in bash just to keep this spirit alive.
2. On the other hand, I’ve written a book and added an index by using Microsoft Word, and it was basically pretty easy to add. I don’t know why I should want to go back to a world of intricate command line tools to do a job that should just be easy enough?
I’ve only ever built serious stuff in either bash or SQL.
I always had to check documentation to make anything work in JS or Swift.
Now with 4/5 prompt inwas able to guide Claude Haiku and Sonnet to make me a HTML+JS app that runs an LLM in local browser storage in maybe 1,5 hours of “work”.
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> Wayne feels that the monetary system has been on a path to disaster since it left the gold standard. It’s a belief, inspired by his reading of Adam Smith, that he’s stood behind for much of his life.
“I understood immediately, in 1968, that we were in trouble not only in The United States but worldwide because they took the whole world off of the gold standard,” he explained. “Which meant that every country in the world was running on what’s called fiat money. Instead of money backed by gold and silver, which had been the case for 2,400 years very successfully, now the world was running on Monopoly money
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