Claude’s Routines feel like the clearest sign yet that terminal automation has outgrown shell scripts and one-off hacks.

It hurts to see your programs taken apart and their weaknesses exposed, but it will make you a better programmer.

Shell scripting is one of those skills that are absolutely invaluable on especially UNIX and BSD-based systems like the BSDs, the two zillion Linux distributions as well as MacOS. Yet not every shell ...