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by pixl97 265 days ago
I mean, you are also a large proprietary monolith. I can't exactly take the run a shell part of your brain and leave the 8 hours of sleep part out. That seemingly is a limitation of intelligence we've not got around yet.

The fact that the AI interpreter will use small commands makes it very useful.
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drdaeman 265 days ago
Uh, my only objection way about talking about Claude Code as “UNIX way/philosophy”. While there are some similarities, they’re nowhere sufficient to call it so.

(As far as I’m aware our brains are opposite of UNIX, starting right from the fact they had evolved and were not designed at all. And the article is about Claude and not me.)

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mediaman 265 days ago
The purpose is not so much Claude Code, but that LLMs running semi-autonomously in a shell environment with access to Unix tools are powerful in a way that a web chatbot is not. Replace Claude Code with some other TUI such as opencode and, modulo some of the specifics of CC's implementation, the truth still stands.
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drdaeman 265 days ago
In context of UNIX philosophy, something like llm(1) is probably a better option.

https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/

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