The author is not aware that GPT-3.5 does not look up information from HTTP links.<p>They should try again but with GPT-4 and manually pasting in the man pages.
Yeah, I think pf.conf might be beyond it.<p>It can perform simple translation tasks; I've had success getting it to output graphviz dot format. But writing that pf.conf requires a (simple) mental model, where it's approaching it as a translation task: one pf.conf section for each line given, translated semi-plausibly.
Give LLMs five more years and this won't be an issue. The fact that it even gets close is seriously impressive.<p>For people like me who aren't sysadmins, but simply have to do maintenance tasks on VPSes from time to time, something like this would be a godsend.