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.
I'm building an open-source system to interrogate the AI-research firehose — RAG now, a multi-agent researcher by the end, in public over five parts. Part 1 is the foundation: the architecture, the ingestion, and the eval bug that would have shipped meaningless numbers.