What alternative do you propose for downloading binaries off the internet, placing them in the "right spot" and doing post-install operations like updating PATH that dont have gotchas equivalent to running "untrusted" code like curl|sh?
I've found LLMs decrease the friction in enabling more pedantic lints and tooling. It is a quantity problem because enabling all the aggressive warnings in the compiler makes a lot of work, and its a quality outcome because presumably addressing every warning from the compiler makes the code better
I find that CLI is a great way to model problems. When I find myself doing something that has graduated beyond a comfortable amount of PowerShell, Rust is there for me.
I have a template I've been evolving so it's super easy to get started with something new; I just copy the template and slam Copilot with some rough ideas on what I want and it works out.
Decomposes the problem very nicely into incrementally achievable steps
1. `fetch <username>` to get info from github into a cache location
2. `generate <username> <output.svg>` to load stats and write an svg
3. `serve` to run a webserver to accept GET requests containing the username to do the above
Means that my stuff always has `--help` and `--version` behaviours too
for 50,000 rows I'd much rather just use fzf/nucleo/tv against json files instead of dealing with database schemas.
When it comes to dealing with embedding vectors rather than plaintext then it gets slightly more annoying but still feels like such an pain in the ass to go full database when really it could still be a bunch of flat open files.
More of a perspective from just trying to index crap on my own machine vs building a SaaS