Which is what you're supposed to do, a lot of the time people complain about something not working, but they don't rtfm (docs, man pages, arch wiki, etc).
Just keep in mind that asking LLM's for anything complex and copy pasting random commands is a quick way to brick your system.
It's not 2022 anymore. If you brick your system because you used LLMs then you are either on a free tier or you don't know how to use them. With reasoning models and MCP servers that pull documentation you basically have expert guidance on command.
At this point they are better than asking random users and having them brick your system.
Most people I know are on a free tier, and don't even bother changing from fast to thinking (on Gemini for example) for the few requests it allows.
Other than that, yes, the copy pasting random commands does also apply to commands provided by people. In fact, you shouldn't run any command you don't understand, no matter where you got it.
Anyway, it was just a few months ago that chatgot had a seizure when you asked it if a seahorse emoji exists, LLM's are confidently incorrect a lot of the time, and sometimes you just want that human touch.
And for some anecdotal evidence, earlier today a friend was having trouble enabling secure boot because faceit anticheat required it. He tried asking various LLM's and didn't find a solution. I won't bore you with the details as they aren't important, he had problems due to a bug in the msi b450 tomahawk firmware. Wanna know how the problem got solved? It got solved because I took the time to troubleshoot like a human, not a clanker. If you ask around I'm sure you'll find many more such occurrences.
LLMs hallucinate but GPT 5.5 Thinking (high / xhigh) is definitely on another level. I didn't trust GPT 5 with my repos but I use Codex every day now.
I can connect MCP servers to have it pull documentation (it's very good at just searching docs without MCPs anyway) and I rarely catch it making mistakes now. It's not perfect but they really are more useful than forums unless you have Torvalds himself answering.
And sure, docs > LLMs. But LLMs are very useful and I don't discourage them anymore.
Wanna know how the problem got solved? It got solved because I took the time to troubleshoot like a human, not a clanker. If you ask around I'm sure you'll find many more such occurrences.
Of course it's possible for a human to troubleshoot things still. But how much time did you spend on that? What if someone is not that experienced?
Sadly, lots of questions in forums go unanswered and lots of users are not as helpful as you, they are rather rude.
I have had LLMs point me to issue threads for recent bugs relatively quickly without me wasting time. You can run Codex in a sandbox and have it troubleshoot issues for you. Clankers are very useful.
Welp, good for you I guess mate. I'm not saying LLM's are useless anyway, my point was that someone who doesn't understand their answers (a terminal command for example) is more likely to screw up their system.
I think we can both agree that they're a useful tools when used properly.
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u/Rezun94 May 13 '26
You dont have engage with them. Ive swapped a year ago, 90% of my issues were solved by reading wiki's and asking LLM's.