Honestly I can't believe Apple put that foundation model product out the door. I was so excited about it, but when I tried it, it was such a disappointment. Glad to hear you calling that out so I know it wasn't just me.

Looks like they have pivoted completely over to Gemini, thank god.

▲ franze 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

yeah, it is super limited but also you can now do

  cmd(){ local x c r a; while [[ $1 == -* ]]; do case $1 in -x)x=1;shift;; -c)c=1;shift;; *)break;; esac; done; r=$(apfel -q -s 'Output only a shell command.' "$*" | sed '/^```/d;/^#/d;s/^[[:space:]]*//;/^$/d' | head -1); [[ $r ]] || { echo "no command generated"; return 1; }; printf '\e[32m$\e[0m %s\n' "$r"; [[ $c ]] && printf %s "$r" | pbcopy && echo "(copied)"; [[ $x ]] && { printf 'Run? [y/N] '; read -r a; [[ $a == y ]] && eval "$r"; }; return 0; }

cmd find all swift files larger than 1MB

cmd -c show disk usage sorted by size

cmd -x what process is using port 3000

cmd list all git branches merged into main

cmd count lines of code by language

without calling home or downloading extra local models

and well, maybe one day they get their local models .... more powerful, "less afraid" and way more context window.

▲ jorvi 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This really makes me think of A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge. A loose prequel to A Fire Upon The Deep, and IMO actually the superior story. It plays in the far future of humanity.

In part of it, one group tries to take control of a huge ship from another group. They in part do this by trying to bypass all the cybersecurity. But in those far future days, you don't interface with all the aeons of layers of command protocols anymore, you just query an AI who does it for you. So, this group has a few tech guys that try the bypass by using the old command protocols directly (in a way the same thing like the iOS exploit that used a vulnerability in a PostScript font library from 90s).

Imagine being used to LLM prompting + responses, and suddenly you have to deal with something like

  sed '/^```/d;/^#/d;s/^[[:space:]]\*//;/^$/d' | head -1); [[ $r ]]

and generally obtuse terminal output and man pages.

(offtopic: name your variables, don't do local x c r a;. Readability is king, and a few hundred thousand years from now some poor Qeng Ho fellow might thank his lucky stars you did).

▲ beepbooptheory 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What is the AI doing here? Or is this just like being cheeky?

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dgacmu 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The pile of shell and sed is cleaning up the ai output and then running it in the shell.

The instruction to the AI was to create _a_ shell command. So it's a random shell command generator (maybe).

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corndoge 3 hours ago | parent [-]

that part is the system prompt, the script is a function that takes a prompt describing a shell command as an argument

	▲	beepbooptheory 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		But it's gotta be just a joke right? Which is why all the examples are just classic things you do with bash/unix utilities? I'll just say, if not a joke, the bit is appreciated either way! "AI change to the home directory. Make it snappy!"

▲ drob518 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In Apple’s defense, they did make it do something borderline useful while targeting a baseline of M1 Macs with 8 GB of RAM (and even less in phones).