Shell scripts are the highest-ROI layer under your AI skills
The glamorous layer is the agent. The load-bearing one is the boring shell script underneath — and that's where most of your reliability actually lives.
Aug 10, 20266 min read1
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The glamorous layer is the agent. The load-bearing one is the boring shell script underneath — and that's where most of your reliability actually lives.
The prompt is only about 10% of what your LLM actually sees. Most of the other 90% is context you assemble — and when your data has structure, you should build it with code, not another LLM call.
You can plan a day around what you can do, or around what you can decide. Until recently those were the same plan, so it never mattered which you meant. Parallel sub-agents pull them apart — and the i