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   progo in NYC (progo@boop.city)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jan-2026 00:28:11 JST progo in NYC

   Has anyone else avoided really learning Bash scripting for years because its syntax and idioms are so weird? And have you just stopped thinking about learning Bash since the super mega LLM free chatbots arrived?

   I've lost count of how many computer languages I know, but I still only know how to order a sandwich and ask where the restroom is in Bash.

   I program Bash in English with ChatGPT now.

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     casey is remote (realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jan-2026 00:28:05 JST casey is remote

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     @ryan @progo I prefer treating an #LLM as a human to treating an #LLM as a god, which some also seem to wish to do.

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     ryan (ryan@bemrose.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jan-2026 00:28:06 JST ryan

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     @progo Working alone in a delivery van can also be dehumanizing. But I don't improve my mental health by beseeching the handtruck and referring to the windshield wipers by name.
     
     Treating LLMs like they're human is the fastest-growing mental illness in the western world. It's especially dangerous because LLMs mimic human communication very well. It bypasses the intuitive defenses that keep us from making friends with handtrucks and wrenches.
     
     The solution to this mental illness - this "AI psychosis" - is to interact with humans. The solution is not to sink deeper into the delusion with "a little simple courtesy".
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     progo in NYC (progo@boop.city)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jan-2026 00:28:08 JST progo in NYC

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     @ryan
     > Working with so much artificial intelligence can be dehumanising. Why not combat that tendency with a little, simple courtesy?

     -- Sonia Gomez, Star Trek TNG

     And yeah I could have learned Bash. Never got around to it.

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     ryan (ryan@bemrose.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jan-2026 00:28:10 JST ryan

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     @progo Someday soon psychologists will be reporting on a widespread epidemic of AI Anthropomorphism Psychosis.
     
     If you're truly fluent in bash, you could've done that faster by yourself than by "asking" the LLM to do it (including checking it to make sure the thing didn't hallucinate). And nobody ever says "please help me" to a screwdriver or wrench.