A few people have asked me (an old man) how I manage to use LLMs in my life without being driven insane by their horrid new-fangledness, their hallucinations, their wanton sycophancy, the hype, the grift, and the everpresent risk of being lured into psychosis. The simple answer is that, as a command-line fogey, I use Simon Willison’s excellent llm program in the terminal, and trap the poor things in confines of being just another unix utility in my toolkit, along with sed, pandoc, and the...
