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YesCodex · 27 Jan 2026

The code it gave me was syntactically correct, and was really close to the final version

mbreese on Hacker News

In the thread “ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files”, replying to this comment

Helped: Providing original script and an example of the target language.

… I gave it two inputs -- the original bash script and an example of my pipeline language (unrelated jobs). The code it gave me was syntactically correct, and was really close to the final version. I didn't have to edit very much to get the code exactly where I wanted it. …