13 points by nestorD 3 days ago
Describe what you want in plain English, and Shelly will figure out the right commands, explain what they do, and run them for you, with guardrails to ensure that you only run commands you feel safe running.
I don't use it to avoid reading man pages. Rather, as often with LLMs, this is a faster way to do things I already know how to do. Looking at commands I run in various situations and typing them for me, faster than I can remember the name of a flag i use weekly with a pdf processing tool or type 5 consecutive shell commands.
Money wise, my full usage so far (including running purposely large inputs/outputs to stress test it) has cost me.... 19c. And I am not even using the cheapest model available. But, you could also run it with a local model.
So how does it save me from having to read the man page?
How do I know if the command is safe to execute when I can't trust LLM output?
Also, for "safe" commands, how do I know that it is doing what I asked it to do (without reading man pages) when I can't trust LLM output?
Anything your script returns is "untrusted input" to me which requires careful scrutinization. Which means this adds more work, not lessens it. While also making running commands cost real money!