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That's a lot of incompatibilities.
LLMs like to use the shell because it's stable and virtually unchanged for decades.
It doesn't need to worry much about versions or whether something is supported or not, it can just assume it is.
Re-implementing bash is a herculean effort. I wish good luck.
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simonw • today at 4:04 PM
Incompatibilities don't matter much provided your error messages are actionable - an LLM can hit a problem, read the error message and try again. They'll also remember that solution for the rest of that session.
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esafak • today at 3:03 PM
No, they use it because there's a lot of training material.
pro-tip: vercel's https://agent-browser.dev/ is a great CLI for agent-based browser automation.
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I would not over-read into that doc. In practice, the only missing stuff are extreme edge cases of the type that is actually not consistent between other implementations of bash.
In practice it works great. I haven't seen a failed command in a while
[Disclaimer: I made the thing]