It's not a random happenstance that LLMs love filesystems and bash.
- It's not a random happenstance that LLMs love filesystems and bash.
- Unix has three key design concepts:
- 1) Everything is a file[c].
- 2) Commands should do one thing well.
- 3) Pipes connect different commands.
- This has enormous combinatorial power[d], and is one of the reasons POSIX style systems have been so dominant.
- It used to be hard for mortals to marshall all of that power.
- You had to have significant arcane knowledge to deploy it.
- But LLMs have that arcane knowledge.
- They're also great at talking to mere mortals and translating their desires into the arcane language[e].