Yeah, sure - if you have the memory that allows that sort of recall. For the rest of us, LLMs are like Alzheimer’s medication or eye glasses. Believe it or not, these types of esoteric commands are very difficult for some of us to remember - but AI is amazing at this sort thing (Unix commands, etc as well as trouble shooting them).
It was Socrates - and he was correct. When was the last time you met someone who could recite The Iliad from memory?
But more to the point ... in Phaedrus he's not talking about "who will memorize the Iliad now that we have the written word", he's talking about "can the written word _teach_". And the answer (as always) is "no and yes".
> and now you, who are the father of letters, have been led by your affection to ascribe to them a power the opposite of that which they really possess. For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem [275b] to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise.
> Yeah, sure - if you have the memory that allows that sort of recall.
You don't memorize them. You learn the foundational knowledge (in this case how http works and the html format, and a bit of shell scripting), then read the manuals and compose the commands. And as days pass, you save interesting snippets somewhere. Then it becomes easier each time you interact with the tools.
Anyone would find ffmpeg or imagemagick daunting if they don't know anything about audio or graphics.
I understand the fundamentals of how git works under the hood. But the cli commands are in no way shape or form, intuitive (just one example). But LLMs nail them every time when I forget.
How many varied tasks do you do with git? I keep books and manuals at hand for the one time I need them, not for continual consultation. I have alias for frequently used commands, functions for the complicated one and use magit for day to day operation (to continue with your example). Using LLMs is your choice and I don’t have any say in that. I don’t use them because they’re useless to me. What you may see as complicated may be a walk in the park for someone else.
