>Lots of recent Linux and neovim users due to how easy it is to debug an issue or edit a config now.
DHH made the interesting point that the Unix standard of plaintext dotfiles and such are as if designed for AI.
DHH made the interesting point that the Unix standard of plaintext dotfiles and such are as if designed for AI.
Really? Really?
I am reminded of Douglas Adams:
“This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.”
AI deals with text files because we've spent ~35 years of free Unix designing an OS that works on text files. So it's only a natural fit because we designed the tools that built LLMs on text-based OSes.
If, say, Apple had made Copland work, or the Lisa had some killer app and proved to be a big hit, we'd be working on natively-OOPS OSes built in Smalltalk-like languages where text files were one encoding, a detail about as interesting and influential as Unicode.