It's not a random happenstance that LLMs love filesystems and bash.

· Bits and Bobs 4/13/26
  • 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].

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