Okay, so I just wanted to figure out how to pad a video to a certain length with black frames so I can avoid getting spoiled when watching the downloaded broadcast of #StarCraft games on my TV by the length of the video.

I typed in my question to duckduckgo, there is no easy #ffmpeg switch that does it, there is no universal solution on stack overflow, but #DuckAi gave me a Bash script that almost worked instantly, and one that worked in like 20 minutes.

But I also feel dumber. #llm

Like, if I had the same issue a year ago, I would have spent an hour or two to look up all the commands I felt like I needed to use and built a Bash script in an hour or so, like the time I made one that extracts EXIF data from photos and renames them to the time for a specific time zone to match the timeline of pictures taken by different members of my family.

But now I just let the robot do it just in time for me to go to bed.

#fml #ai #vibeCoding #bashScript