Frontier models now compose Bash workflows that replace dedicated coding tools
Original titleHow Foundational Models Became Superhuman in Bash
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The author rebuilt an agent harness with only a bash tool and a media viewer, and task completion stayed in the same range.
Three example workflows show multi-file edits, bisecting a flaky test, and correlating compressed logs in SQLite, with the intermediate data kept out of the model context.
In a comparison against separate file, edit, and search tools on the same coding tasks, the shell-centered setup performed on par or better, though the author notes images still need a multimodal channel.
Source: Philipp Schmid · philschmid.dePublished · added here