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LLMs are one large binary that does everything (maybe, if you are lucky today) exact opposite of the unix philosophy
by blibble 1y ago
LLMs are one large binary that does everything (maybe, if you are lucky today)
exact opposite of the unix philosophy
- dragonwriter 1y ago> LLMs are one large binary that does everything Well, no, they aren't, but the orchestration frameworks in which they are embedded sometimes are (though a lot of times a whole lot of that everything is actually done by separate binaries the framework is made aware of via some configuration or discovery mechanism.)
- disconcision 1y agowait until you find out about human programmers...
- kfarr 1y agoThey’re one gigantic organic blob?
- rhubarbtree 1y agoThey write the individual tools that do the one specific thing?
- floatrock 1y agosure, but that's not what we're talking about here. the article is framing LLM's as a kind of fuzzy pipe that can automatically connect lots of tools really well. This ability works particularly well with unix-philosophy do-one-thing tools, and so being able to access such tools opens a superpower that is unique and secretly shiny about claudecode that browser-based chatgpt doesn't have.
- btbuildem 1y agoIt's more like a fluid/shapeless orchestrator that fuzzily interfaces between human and machine language, arising momentarily from a vat to take the exact form that fits the desired function, then disintegrates until called upon again.