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He picked the worst example he possibly could have, but that doesn't change the general truth of the matter. LLMs are the new shell.

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So direct manipulation is dead?

Essentially. I don't know much Linux, but I've had no problems putting together a capable, well-configured, and secure Linux box by using Claude Code as the CLI 99% of the time. Occasionally it gives me a command that needs to be pasted into a separate terminal window, but for the most part it just works on its own (and boy, does it struggle sometimes.)

A key point is that the box might as well be running BeOS or Windows or HP-UX or OS/360 or something. It doesn't matter much anymore, any more than my choice of programming language does. Requires some mental adjustment.

i get the point about the traditional UI being possibly obsolete for a large group of users. But I can‘t help wondering:

> don't know much Linux, but I've had no problems putting together a capable, well-configured, and secure Linux box by using Claude Code

How can you be sure of it being well configured and secure? Especially if you don‘t know much about Linux?

It does what I need, it lives behind a firewall (and on its own VLAN), and while I'm a Linux n00b I'm not new to computing in general.

In practice, that means I at least stick around and watch when Claude tells me to curl | sudo bash something. :-P

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