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It took me more time to read this thread than it did for me to learn the basics of Bash scripting.

Do like we did back in the day, RTFM

Probably a stupid comment, but still: if you're a coder, you might be quicker just writing such a script yourself. Just fetch the links, slice them up, sort them by version and wget the one with the highest number.

If you're not a coder, maybe someone here can help out?

AI certainly can do it. But here's the thing with generative AI: the answer is only as good as the question you ask. If you don't know exactly what to ask for and which details are important, the AI doesn't know what you meant to ask and can't infer that. AI usually does not pick up implied context that an experienced person would. A person would be able to make an educated guess about what you actually meant and answer that question.

As someone with 20 years of programming experience, I would recommend against using AI to learn to program. You're asking something that doesn't actually know how to program to show you how to do it. From my experience with coworkers using AI, it doesn't improve their work; it simply accelerates the rate at which they can produce low quality work.

Once you're more skilled than the AI, you can use it to speed up menial tasks, like generating boilerplate and stubbing things out. It absolutely will be wrong in some ways, and you need to be able to tell when it's wrong and know how to fix it.

@secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world I bet there is a RSS feed for Ubuntu releases. Instead of using AI to get the link you would need to read consume the feed.

Dude just stitch stack overflow answers together like the rest of us

In my experience, Chat GPT is much better at the general programming patterns and concepts than specific API implementations. Especially less commonly used ones, where it often gives a solution that only looks reasonable but uses the totally wrong methods. I guess it's similar with scraping the HTML of the Ubuntu releases page to get the latest torrent. It doesn't know the exact HTML layout, so it guesses what is a likely one, even though it is wrong.

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Just write it yourself 🤦‍♂️

Try scraping it from this page.

https://ipv6.torrent.ubuntu.com/tracker_index

The AI will provide methods you could try, but ultimately a human will need to review and edit the code.

Isn't this something you use rss for?

You are a powerful terminal assistant. You will answer in the most helpful possible way and provide the user with Linux bash commands to accomplish their tasks. Use Google and internet search to fetch all necessary information. Always format your answer in markdown format.

User question: How do I download the latest Ubuntu ISO torrent? Make sure it's the latest version from ubuntu.com Make sure to also include the curl or wget command to download the torrent file itself.

only via great evil

Find a decent torrent searching tool, ask the ai to search for it, have it create a filter using whatever, whether it be grep or regex, to check and compare the dates

If you're gonna do this, have something with chain of thought