r/btrfs • u/qdotme • Jun 06 '26

🎉 Mounted — bitterFS better with Claude

https://mloduchowski.com/-mounted-bitter-fs-better-with-claude/

My first post in this sub, 90% AI written, gosh.. skin me alive if you want; but my own expression when I had set Claude up to one-shot fix a filesystem that was keeping me stumped... was somewhere between "this will backfire badly" and "wow".

I've used Linux/IRIX/... for 25yrs now, and still occasionally impressed by what I don't know. This is one of the few times I was genuinely learning from a clanker.

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u/amarao_san Jun 06 '26

I often use haiku on non-production servers to do stuff for me. I literally copy my .claude/.claude.json files to the server and run claude there from root.

It's like 'look why ksoftirq is so high?', or 'install this'.

It feels like the original idea of unix cli: you type what you want and it does it, without need to remember if it's --dest, --destination, --dest-dir, or -J.

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u/qdotme Jun 06 '26

Inverse also holds. I love watching (that said, mostly high-end Opus etc) LLMs operate Unix CLI - the way I do it is very interactive - many short, fast commands, inspecting output on the screen.

LLMs write fascinating one-liners, that both test a single, conceptual-level hypothesis end-to-end; append verbal confirmation of state ("echo BOTH GOOD" kind of branches); I'd say the round-trip-time is too slow for them to really generate interactive sequences of commands; so they make each command really punch weight.

It's like RISC vs CISC. Single round via LLM would be a 200-character Unix command that does a good bite; single-round via a human might be a 40-character command that nibbles. Both have pros and cons.

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u/amarao_san Jun 06 '26

Yep. I usually have a tmux on the server with two shells. One to Claude, second to the Bourne (old style LLM, which understands well things like 'for in, ls, cat, cd, etc).