Show HN: Whiz – A copilot for your terminal

I&#x27;d consider using something besides &#x27;list all files&#x27; as first example in the gif. I&#x27;d think anyone who opens a terminal knows how to do that so listing files in a directory and hitting a spinner isn&#x27;t very inspiring.<p>The second curl example is better since plenty of people won&#x27;t know that off the top of their head.

A reminder to users of Github CoPilot who may be unaware, there is also a terminal version you can install included in your subscription. It&#x27;s ok. (Edit) There is a waitlist.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;githubnext.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;copilot-cli" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;githubnext.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;copilot-cli</a>

All of the alternatives commented so far have the same downside, you got a LLM response and you can either run it or abort.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tom-doerr&#x2F;zsh_codex">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tom-doerr&#x2F;zsh_codex</a><p>^ This is much nicer as it hook into zsh completion so you got a response that drop right into the shell input (enter to execute or edit away)<p>Also you can write shell script directly in prompt and use it to auto complete the rest

I&#x27;ve built a similar shell script a while ago and still use it quite frequently: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Luanf&#x2F;cligpt">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Luanf&#x2F;cligpt</a>

There&#x27;s also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.warp.dev" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.warp.dev</a><p>I&#x27;ve been using it for the past few weeks and it&#x27;s really sleek. I actually don&#x27;t use the AI features very often because I&#x27;m fluent in the terminal, but it&#x27;s nice to know it&#x27;s there if I need it.<p>Some people get weirded out by the fact that it&#x27;s VC funded and they collect telemetry, but I think you can turn that off.

nice idea but anything written in node&#x2F;deno&#x2F;whatever will definitely stop working &lt; 6 months unless its heavily maintained.

I was surprised that Whiz could use tools like ffmpeg even though it tells ChatGPT to only use available shell commands. I asked it to &quot;convert demo.mov to an mp4&quot; and &quot;cut the first five seconds of demo.mp4&quot; and it came back with the correct commands. I guess that was enough to allow it to assume ffmpeg is probably installed. Pretty cool!

Seems like a perfect use case for local models. Not sure I want to be sending my .bash_profile or .bash_history (or local env vars...) to OpenAI. And I can&#x27;t imagine doing anything in the terminal that llama2-code-7b couldn&#x27;t make sense of. That can trivially run on an M1 with 8GB.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;TheR1D&#x2F;shell_gpt">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;TheR1D&#x2F;shell_gpt</a> already exists

What are the security implications of this?<p>If you ask it something like “pipe the output of &lt;CLI&gt; using &lt;MY_SECRET_TOKEN&gt; to grep to find XYZ”

It is quite similar to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;KillianLucas&#x2F;open-interpreter">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;KillianLucas&#x2F;open-interpreter</a><p>Such terminal tools are quite like AI agents, it should think about steps and then execute one by one.

For people who use terminal a lot, I find shell gpt a good mixture [1]. Flexible enough to pipe commands, generic enough to ask questions.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;TheR1D&#x2F;shell_gpt">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;TheR1D&#x2F;shell_gpt</a>

How does it compare to gorilla cli? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gorilla-llm&#x2F;gorilla-cli">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gorilla-llm&#x2F;gorilla-cli</a>

I tried this but when I am running commands like wz can you install beautifulsoup and such things then it is giving me the syntex error: JSON<p>command is: &quot;wz can you install bs4&quot;

This kind of reminds me of the database Q&amp;A, which used SRI&#x27;s NLP tech to allow you to query databases with &quot;plain English&quot;.

Nice. It would be cool if something like this existed for nushell. Chatgpt4 struggles with that language unfortunately

How is this different than <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fig.io&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fig.io&#x2F;</a>?

GitHub copilot has created something (still in beta) that does this.

Pretty neat use case. I like it

this should be called terminator

This is cool

What does it do