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Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing

by Noah Brier alephic.com published 2025-09-30

If you've talked to me lately about AI, you've almost certainly been subject to a long soliloquy about the wonders of Claude Code. What started as a tool I ran in parallel with other tools to aid coding has turned into my full-fledged agentic operating system, supporting all kinds of workflows.

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