I asked ChatGPT to write a pf.conf to spec

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&#x27;ve had success getting it to output graphviz dot format. But writing that pf.conf requires a (simple) mental model, where it&#x27;s approaching it as a translation task: one pf.conf section for each line given, translated semi-plausibly.

&quot;A be concise&quot; and &quot;document every step.&quot; in the prompt did the trick for me.

Give LLMs five more years and this won&#x27;t be an issue. The fact that it even gets close is seriously impressive.<p>For people like me who aren&#x27;t sysadmins, but simply have to do maintenance tasks on VPSes from time to time, something like this would be a godsend.