Futa – A functionally useless AI terminal assistant

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futa: F(unctionally) Useless Terminal Assistant Powered by qwen3! WARNING: Please don't use futa irresponsibly. It's highly recommended to run futa on a VM just because of the unpredictability of the commands it generates. πŸ’© Are you tired of knowing what you're doing in the terminal? Want to add ✨chaos✨ to your workflow? 🧠 Introducing: futa β€” the Functionally Useless Terminal Assistant that runs a MASSIVE 🀯 LANGUAGE MODEL 🧠 to execute the tiniest of commands for you! Because why just type ls when you can launch a rocket πŸš€ of AI processing to tell you to type ls? πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈπŸ’Έ πŸ› οΈ How It Works futa You type literally anything 🀌 FUTA spins up a large language model πŸ“š (yes, every time) It interprets your command with the intelligence of a thousand neckbeards πŸ§”β€β™‚οΈπŸ§”β€β™€οΈπŸ§” Then it decides what to actually run in your terminal πŸ§ͺ It might do what you want. It might destroy your file system. 🀑 Who knows! πŸ’‘ Example bash Copy Edit futa "make it go brrr" πŸ§ πŸ€” LLM: Analyzing command... πŸ” "make it go brrr" detected as 'start a Docker container probably?' βš™οΈ Executing: docker-compose up --force-recreate --brrr-mode=true πŸ’₯πŸ’₯πŸ’₯πŸ’₯πŸ’₯πŸ’₯ πŸ“¦ Features πŸ€– Uses more compute power than the Apollo missions to run git status 🎭 Responds with overconfident energy like your Tech Bro friend, even when it’s dead wrong 🧡 Outputs at least 3 paragraphs of explanation before running a 1-line command πŸ“‰ Productivity? Never heard of her 🧨 Installation git clone github.com/nail-e/futa Run the install script 🚧 Disclaimer ⚠️ FUTA is Functionally Useless for a reason. We are not responsible for: Loss of sanity 🧠 Corrupted terminal sessions πŸ’€ Existential crises brought on by the AI sounding smarter than you πŸ€–πŸ§˜ Accidentally deleting your $HOME folder πŸ’£ πŸ§™β€β™‚οΈ Use Cases (??) πŸ’ When you want to look like you're working, but actually you're LARPing as a sysadmin 🧘 When you crave chaos and have too much RAM 🎀 When you're doing a live demo and want to bet your career on a language model 🧩 When Clippy wasn’t quite needy enough ⭐ Contribut...

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