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tyretoday at 12:22 PM1 replyview on HN

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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duskdozertoday at 3:52 PM

I believe that. I also believe that my idea won't come to fruition, at least from a group that is incentivized to make a user's first instinct be to use their product and not an external tool.