try VS open-interpreter

"try" is not a prefix (like watch, nice, etc) uses an overlayfs in order to be able to see and accept or reject changes to your filesystem from a command

https://github.com/binpash/try

For any shell command where a minor mistake has the potential of ruining your day, take a look at “try”, which will allow you to inspect the effects before running it against a live system: https://github.com/binpash/try

he is not running a container, he is mounting an overlay file system for each root directory on the current system, then looking at what has been added as a new layer - that's what the command is supposed to add to the running system.

Pure genius.

See https://github.com/binpash/try/blob/b2df6b650cb2b58951563174...

I think openinterpreter [1] were one of the first teams in this space along with shroominic code interpreter api and afaik they started with selenium but have expanded to do a lot more os level work but wonder if having a more narrow specialization could help these newer projects be better at the one thing they are focused on.

[1] https://openinterpreter.com/

I taught https://github.com/KillianLucas/open-interpreter how to use https://github.com/ferrislucas/promptr

Then I asked it to add a test suite to a rails side project. It created missing factories, corrected a broken test database configuration, and wrote tests for the classes and controllers that I asked it to.

I didn't have to get involved with mundane details. I did have to intervene here and there, but not much. The tests aren't the best in the world, but IMO they're adding value by at least covering the happy path. They're not as good as an experienced person would write.

I did spend a non-trivial amount of time fiddling with the prompts I used to teach OI about Promptr as well as the prompts I used to get it to successfully create the test suite.

The total cost was around $11 using GPT4 turbo.

I think in this case it was a fun experiment. I think in the future, this type of tooling will be ubiquitous.

My understanding is that ShellGPT aims to be a complete OS assistant. It's similar to Open Interpreter (https://github.com/KillianLucas/open-interpreter).

Shelly is a mini tool at the moment that only generates and executes commands for you.

https://github.com/KillianLucas/open-interpreter Both OpenAI and Local

Yeah there's a program called openinterpreter, It works beautifully. https://openinterpreter.com/