Unix, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Marc Andreessen 10Simon Willison 2Chris Lattner 2Boris Cherny 2Ben Firshman 2Shawn Wang 1Bret Taylor 1Andy Konwinski 1Alessio Fanelli 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Unix comes up
AI Agents Need Computers: 74% MoM Growth, 850K/Day Runs, & New Agent Cloud — Ivan Burazin, Daytona
- ▶ 40:13 Shawn Wang You know, because like Linux was originally like a clean room rewrite of Unix.
Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
- ▶ 33:13 Marc Andreessen For those of us who are older, there was this whole thing that was very important in the world of software, basically from, like, 1970 to, I don't know, it still is very important, but, like, 19, from 1970 through to, like, basically the… 10 times in the scene
Terminal-Bench 2.0: the most impt coding agent benchmark of 2025 gets a v2! Launch + Q&A w/ founders
- ▶ 23:58 Andy Konwinski Uh, because I was like an operating systems nerd, and I wanted to, like, be a hacker at, like, Bill Joy developing Unix, and so I had this fantasy that, like, really awesome computer nerds don't need the mouse, and we should just do…
⚡️OpenCode: Claude Code but Open Source, with Any Model, and frontier TUI - with Dax Reed (@thdxr)
- ▶ 12:30 Alessio Fanelli I think, you know, when we did the Cloud Code episode with Boris and Kat, Boris called it like a Unix utility.
The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular)
- ▶ 27:02 Chris Lattner It was designed from the old school Unix, like, like compilers are Unix pipe. 2 times in the scene
Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI Agent
- ▶ 13:28 Boris Cherny We, we think of it as like a Unix utility.
- ▶ 1:07:41 Boris Cherny And yeah, they're using it, they're like, so quad code you can pipe in because it's a Unix utility, and so what they, they do is they take their data, uh, put it in a CSV, and then they take the, they cat the CSV, pipe it into code, and…
The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
- ▶ 47:22 Bret Taylor And then C came out of the birth of Unix and it wasn't the first, but certainly the most prominent first step after assembly language, right?
Building AGI in Real Time (OpenAI Dev Day 2024)
- ▶ 1:01:27 Simon Willison I just realized what I can do, though, is I do a lot of Unix utilities, little, like, Unix things. 2 times in the scene
A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
- ▶ 5:19 Ben Firshman And, um, and the current, the current sort of best practices about how Unix was designed, like, you know, there's, there's lots of sort of design documents about Unix from, from the seventies and eighties. 2 times in the scene