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I tried Warp terminal because now that’s bankrolled by openai’s magic infinite money you can use your own openai api keys without a subscription. So I put one from my work account. I do a git commit (manually) and then it comes a prompt under it “push it, open a PR and switch to main?”. I click yes, it used one million tokens for that… (And it took about a minute because it did like 20 requests, so there was no time saving at all vs doing it manually)
I wget something, it comes a prompt under it “now compare the hash?”. Boom, another 500k tokens
People who use slop generators for coding assistance are insane. Everything else is a logical consequence of thinking you can take shortcuts to coding.
I tried Warp terminal because now that’s bankrolled by openai’s magic infinite money you can use your own openai api keys without a subscription. So I put one from my work account. I do a git commit (manually) and then it comes a prompt under it “push it, open a PR and switch to main?”. I click yes, it used one million tokens for that… (And it took about a minute because it did like 20 requests, so there was no time saving at all vs doing it manually)
I wget something, it comes a prompt under it “now compare the hash?”. Boom, another 500k tokens
That’s completely insane. At best it would be useful for the pr title and message, but the rest of that is waste.
These are the kinds of things I just ask in chat. “Whata the cli command to compare hashes again?”
People who use slop generators for coding assistance are insane. Everything else is a logical consequence of thinking you can take shortcuts to coding.