[–] jonjacky 3mo ago ↗ Rob Pike, one of the Unix developers, observed people turning away from their philosophy back in 2001:The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy http://herpolhode.com/rob/ugly.pdf"What Unix does well isn’t what people want. ...People prefer integrated environments and browsers. ...Perhaps people don’t want to think about problem solving this way. Maybe Unix got it wrong. (Even within Unix, the tool approach is losing ground.)"
[–] kjsingh 3mo ago ↗ The only reason Claude Code got popular is because unix philosophy and CLI interfaces gave CC the perfect platform to integrate itself
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy http://herpolhode.com/rob/ugly.pdf
"What Unix does well isn’t what people want. ...
People prefer integrated environments and browsers. ...
Perhaps people don’t want to think about problem solving this way. Maybe Unix got it wrong. (Even within Unix, the tool approach is losing ground.)"