ChatGPT says there is a beta with a command for managing projects

[bshoemate]

I asked it how to list issues in a project and it said the following. When I said, this didn't work, it told me that is only available in the beta and told me how to install the beta with "brew install gh --devel" - that didn't work either. Furthermore, I asked where to find info about projects and it sent me to a 404 at: https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_project

Does this thing have access to the future?

ChatGPT response:

To list the projects of a repository using the GitHub CLI, you can use the following command:

gh project list
This command will list all of the projects for the repository that you are currently in. By default, it will show the name, ID, and URL of each project.

If you want to see more details about a specific project, you can use the view subcommand with the project number, like this:

gh project view 123

Replace 123 with the ID of the project that you want to view.

You can also filter the list of projects by state (open or closed) or by type (repository, organization, or user). For example, to list all open projects for an organization, you can use the following command:

gh project list --state=open --type=org

This will show a list of all open projects for the current organization.

[bshoemate]

Nevermind. It seems it is using the gh-projects extension. https://github.com/github/gh-projects

You can install it by running:
'gh extension install github/gh-projects'

After that, its commands work. It seems ChatGPT is not infallible. Yet. I'm sure this comment will seem naive and quaint in a few months.

[mislav]

Hi, large language models like ChatGPT don't actually “know” exactly how to use command line tools like GitHub CLI, so they make up command invocations that sound plausible but may or may not exist. Furthermore, older models such as ChatGPT 3.5 (the default model unless you pay for Plus) have a training set that goes only up to the year 2021 or so, and it follows that their training set does not know about features or extensions added to GitHub CLI since then.

https://twitter.com/vboykis/status/1646689444479528961

The only truly comprehensive way to learn how to use GitHub CLI is to browse our manual, which lists all available commands and flags and includes a link to the list of all public extensions.

You can continue to use tools like ChatGPT to give you pointers about how to use command-line tools or programming concept, but when they turn out to be wrong (this will be often), I suggest that you switch to old-fashioned methods of finding the correct way, such as perusing documentation. What I do not suggest is opening an issue in that project's repository, since maintainers like myself did nothing wrong, but we now have to spend our valuable time explaining to our users why the command ChatGPT told them to use does not exist.