[TacticalCoder]

> All the infrastructure that runs the whole AI-over-the-internet juggernaut is essentially all open source.

Exactly.

> Heck, even Claude Code would be far less useful without grep, diff, git, head, etc.

It wouldn't even work. It's constantly using those.

I remember reading a Claude Code CLI install doc and the first thing was "we need ripgrep" with zero shame.

All these tools also all basically run on top of Linux: with Claude Code actually installing, on Windows and MacOS, a full linux VM on the system.

It's all open-source command line tools, an open-source OS and piping program one to the other. I'm on Linux on the desktop (and servers ofc) since the Slackware days... And I was right all along.

[gesis]

The primary selling point of unix and unix-like operating systems has always been composability.

Without the ability to string together the basic utilities into a much greater sum, Unix would have been another blip.