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duskdozertoday at 10:37 AM1 replyview on HN

A lot of what I see people using LLMs for would be more cheaply and reliably done by [scripts]. A search engine style suggestion thing like "Have you tried `sed`?" would be beneficial imo


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tyretoday at 12:22 PM

In my experience, Claude is more than happy to go to Unix tools rather than write its own. Sometimes it will write a lil python script to solve something, but more often than not it’ll pipe together Unix utilities.

This has the benefit of it knowing all of the arcane flags, especially for formatting output.

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