@_philschmid: Another Bitter Lesson is coming. You might have noticed your coding agents preferring bash over dedicated tool more and…
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The post discusses how AI coding agents are increasingly preferring bash scripting over dedicated tools, becoming highly proficient in it, which could lead to another 'Bitter Lesson' in AI development.
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Another Bitter Lesson is coming. You might have noticed your coding agents preferring bash over dedicated tool more and more.
They became superhuman in Bash.
Frontier models can now write complex disposable scripts in seconds. Atomic Python multi-file edits, git worktrees, and log aggregations.
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