Why does AI tell you to use Terminal so much?

Re:Why does AI tell you to use Terminal so much? by llarsson on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @05:01AM (#47333231)

Because it's been trained on decades of StackOverflow and forum posts. And because while some command line tools go in and out of fashion, quite a lot are very stable, so their use will show up all the time in the training material.

Since it's all statistics under the LLM hood, both of those cause proven CLI tools to have strong signals as being the right answer.

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Re:Why does AI tell you to use Terminal so much? by ErroneousBosh on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @05:03AM (#47333252)

If you asked an AI about joinery, it'd tell you to use a measuring tape, a pencil, a saw, a level, and a hammer a lot.

I wonder why?

Maybe because that's where the basic tools live.

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