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I would like to see one integrated into a gnu os like linux where its only capability is to understand the os and guide you through it. No generation and no expertise outside the os exosystem. Maybe allow for it to be given the privelege to search the web. I would have it have capability to use other ais to perform other tasks so modules or whatnot could be added to give it more capability as a general computer butler type. Basically an os that acted like a start trek computer.
I want clippy but actually useful with all software, just giving tips when needed, ai can be useful sometimes, idk like im bad at math always have been, I need to sort some curves by index recentlly and it helped with the math logic a lot, otherwise I was using a repeat node and it was a lot slower than the way it showed me. Downside ofc was the ai way isn't fully accurate or implementable as they say, has to be modified, it makes up nodes that don't exist, but there are similar ones.
Increasingly, people ask me questions, send me screen shots, I copy-paste that into gpt, gpt's answers are helpful and correct... they have access to the same (free to use) gpt themselves...
When I ask a person a question im generally trying to get their perspective. Im likely asking a few people or will over time. Its honestly just a part of socializing and interacting as humans.
I get questions like: why can't I access this server, I followed the wiki page (first clue, they didn't follow the wiki page). That's not asking for insight, that's asking for where they failed to follow a set of 5 step directions by doing things like: changing the default filename of their new ssh key to something they invented.
GPT explained, far more patiently than I would have, how indeed to do 4 more steps and rename your ssh key to anything you want, but I did offer the insight: if you just leave the name as the default value, you can skip all of this extra work.
why are people asking you this. Do you mean at work?
Yes, do you answer questions for money outside of work? Outside of work if somebody is asking me a question I assume they want my answer and I'll give them that instead of looking something up, although sometimes I punt with an "I don't know but I bet Google does..." Inside work I attempt to answer questions as correctly and efficiently as possible - the GPT tools are great at that.
Okay. It was just not clear when you first said how you would put it in chat gpt. Granted I will answer work questions from myself because if they are asking I generally just know the answer or if I don't I say I don't. I might even say I think that is somewhere in the wiki or give a wiki link. Much more common if I wrote the wiki section which is kinda common if they are asking me. I might though ask if they did and where it lost them as then I can improve the wiki.
Yeah, this recent flurry is a batch of colleagues at an overseas office who took an interest in running a procedure I setup about 3 years ago, they're all creating their own ssh keys and I'm adding their public keys to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on a certain server - so far so good, but for some reason they're all renaming their key files away from the default names even though the procedure shows steps to create default named keys (they don't have other keys....) so, this morning I went and edited the wiki page to make it explicit: "Use the default key names unless you want to do a whole lot more configuration work on your end..." which, of course, none of them do.
But, yesterday, when this query-storm started, they sent me a screenshot with their renamed keys and I wasn't sure if that should work or not, so I fed the screenshot over to GPT and it instantly answered about how to configure the client to use non-default key names - which I translated to the users as: "just rename your keys to the default names" they did, and they're happy. Though, this morning one sent me a key both renamed and with her user ID stripped off - I wasn't sure if that would work or not so we just tried it, and when it didn't work I had her send me the whole key...
A lot of what I get out of GPT is stuff I already know, or knew, but can't articulate all the detail about as quickly as GPT can.
oh yeah its good for that. I know I can sometimes write without really taking into account what the end user may not know. Or its just not well formatted and business like enough.
People ask humans because they want to interact with humans, just say you don't know and they'll ask ai themselves, unnecessary middlemannimg for ego boost is weird
It's not that I don't know, it's that I've already answered their questions, in writing, if they would just read a half page of text and do what it says.
Please don't compare how I use AI to how you do, I hope I never ask you a question and trust you like I would a human
Well, when the question is: why isn't my server access working, and the result from gpt gets their server access working... I hope you can trust a result like that?
Using Pi agent with qwen 3.6 35b a3b running with llamacpp on my GPU feels a lot like that. I have a script that watches my downloads folder and keeps it organized, and it used to just get the file extensions and move things based on type, now with a local llm in the loop, it moves things based on what it is, and what it is for. If I download a PDF file from work, it automatically reads the first page, figures out what its about, and moves it to my work documents.
"Whichever port that docker container is on, make it this one"
They're really good at digging for stuff, like: this app is reporting the git hash it was built from - somewhere in the log files - go read that and show me which branch that hash appears on (hash is 8 commits back in some branch...) Yeah, I could do that myself, but why would I if I don't have to?