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Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

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Re: Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

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Post by gchamonlive »

tsimionescu wrote: post #9
gchamonlive wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Open-weights only are also not enough, we need control of the dataset and training pipeline. The average user like me wouldn't be able to run pipelines without serious infrastructure, but it's very important to understand how the data is used and how the models are trained, so that we own the model and can assess its biases openly.

Good luck understanding the biases in a petabyte of text and images and video, or whatever the training set is.

Do you disagree it's important to have access to the data, ease of assessment notwithstanding?

Re: Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

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Post by noahbrier »

jmull wrote: post #10

> Anyone who can't find use cases for LLMs isn't trying hard enough That's an interesting viewpoint from an AI marketing company. I think the essential job of marketing is to help people make the connection between their problems and your solutions. Putting all on them in a kind of blamey way doesn't seem like a great approach to me.

That's fair. But it's what I believe. I spend a lot of time inside giant companies and there are too many people waiting for stone tablets to come down the mountain with their use cases instead of just playing with this stuff.

Re: Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

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Post by noahbrier »

xnx wrote: post #5

No mention/comparison to Gemini CLI? Gemini CLI is awesome and they just added a kind of stealth feature for Chrome automation. This capability was first announced as Project Mariner, and teased for eventual rollout in Chrome, but it's available right now for free in Gemini CLI.

Tbf I haven't played much with it, but I have generally found that I don't like the permission model on Gemini CLI or Codex anywhere near as much as Claude Code.

Re: Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

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Post by sega_sai »

xnx wrote: post #5

No mention/comparison to Gemini CLI? Gemini CLI is awesome and they just added a kind of stealth feature for Chrome automation. This capability was first announced as Project Mariner, and teased for eventual rollout in Chrome, but it's available right now for free in Gemini CLI.

In my experience of trying to do things with gemini cli and claude code, claude code was always significantly smarter. gemini cli makes so many mistakes and then tries hard to fix them (in my applications at least).

Re: Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

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Post by skydhash »

jmull wrote: post #10

> Anyone who can't find use cases for LLMs isn't trying hard enough That's an interesting viewpoint from an AI marketing company. I think the essential job of marketing is to help people make the connection between their problems and your solutions. Putting all on them in a kind of blamey way doesn't seem like a great approach to me.

I read the whole thing and could still not figure out what they’re trying to solve. Which I’m pretty sure goes against the Unix philosophy. The one thing should be clearly defined to be able to declare that you solve it well.

Re: Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

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Post by noahbrier »

skydhash wrote: post #17
jmull wrote: post #10

> Anyone who can't find use cases for LLMs isn't trying hard enough That's an interesting viewpoint from an AI marketing company. I think the essential job of marketing is to help people make the connection between their problems and your solutions. Putting all on them in a kind of blamey way doesn't seem like a great approach to me.

I read the whole thing and could still not figure out what they’re trying to solve. Which I’m pretty sure goes against the Unix philosophy. The one thing should be clearly defined to be able to declare that you solve it well.

What the company is trying to solve or what I'm solving with Claude Code?

Re: Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

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Post by skydhash »

noahbrier wrote: post #18
skydhash wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I read the whole thing and could still not figure out what they’re trying to solve. Which I’m pretty sure goes against the Unix philosophy. The one thing should be clearly defined to be able to declare that you solve it well.

What the company is trying to solve or what I'm solving with Claude Code?

I read the title, I read the article and there’s nothing in the article that supports the claim made in the title.

Also about a tool being overly conplex. Something like find, imagemagick, ffmpeg,… are not complex in themselves. They’re solving a domain that itself is complex. But the tools are quite good the evidence is their stability where they’ve barely changed across decades.

Re: Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

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Post by buzzy_hacker »

xorvoid wrote: post #2

Let's do this. But entirely local. Local obsidian, local LLM, and all open source. That's the future I want.

LLMs are making open source programs both more viable and more valuable.

I have many programs I use that I wish were a little different, but even if they were open source, it would take a while to acquaint myself with the source code organization to make these changes. LLMs, on the other hand, are pretty good at small self-contained changes like tweaks or new minor features.

This makes it easier to modify open source programs, but also means that if a program isn't open source, I can't make these changes at all. Before, I wasn't going to make the change anyway, but now that I actually can, the ability to make changes (i.e. the program is open source) becomes much more important.

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