Comment by kristopolous

My current secrets:

* cht.sh is a great way to avoid a lot of this stuff - there's a commandline tool as well

* usable cli ai setup: simonw's llm (https://github.com/simonw/llm) + openrouter (https://github.com/simonw/llm-openrouter) + free models (https://openrouter.ai/models?max_price=0) + glow (https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow) + adding this to your .rc file:

     function lm {
       local input="$*"
       llm -s 'Answer as short and concise as possible'  ${input} | glow
     }

Here's an example,

    $ lm "ssh command to forward the port 5050 on user@remote to my localhost:7001" 
      ssh -L 7001:localhost:5050 user@remote                                        
    $

Now for a sophisticated use-case I have a small tmux program where I can capture what's on the pane, enter a prompt and it will query an llm so I can say things like "How do I fix this error" or "what debian package do I need to get this to run right?" ... both these are recent patterns I've started and they've been real game changers

Some lesser game-changers:

* tmux extrakto - opens an "fzf" like search of all the text on the screen. So after a "git status", I can do git add (run extracto - enter partial path, press tab) and continue: https://github.com/laktak/extrakto

* mcfly history: https://github.com/cantino/mcfly just watch the demo, you'll see

* ugrep: grep with a powerful tui: https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep - I became an instant convert.

* batcat: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat ... you really need to use some of its other features to leverage it. It's really nice.