I've gotten into it recently but actually not because LLMs. Actually I find them unhelpful here. The reason I've gotten into it is because I wanted to make a bunch of install scripts for programs I want on fresh boxes. Mostly it's been fun. Seeing what I can do with curl, sed, awk, regex, and bash scripting. I'm often finding that I can do a ton of things in a single line where I would have done a lot more if I wrote it in python or something else. Idk, there's just something very fun about this.
Though what's been a little frustrating is that there's anti scraping measures and they break things. But they're always trivial to get around, so it's just annoying.
A big reason LLMs and up failing is that I need my scripts to work on osx and nix machines. So it's always suggesting things to me that work on one but not the other. It seems to not want to listen to my constraints and grep is problematic for them in particular. Luckily man pages are great. I think they're often over looked.
If you are able to install specific implementations of the tools, go with GNU tools on all the machines. That way, you'd get more features and work the same everywhere.
If that is not an option, go with Perl. It'd be a little slower, but you'll get consistent results. Plus, Perl has powerful regex, lots of standard libraries, etc.
Well the fun is, as I was trying to convey, building the tools automatically from fresh boxes. Sure, I can bootstrap my way by first installing gnu coreutils but if this was about doing things the easy way I'd just use the relevant package manager and ansible like everyone else
Though what's been a little frustrating is that there's anti scraping measures and they break things. But they're always trivial to get around, so it's just annoying.
A big reason LLMs and up failing is that I need my scripts to work on osx and nix machines. So it's always suggesting things to me that work on one but not the other. It seems to not want to listen to my constraints and grep is problematic for them in particular. Luckily man pages are great. I think they're often over looked.