[statico]

Hey folks, a few days ago I wondered: Given all this LLM availability, why can’t I write shell scripts like this?

  #!/usr/bin/env llmscript
  
  Count all files in the current directory and its subdirectories
  Group them by file extension
  Print a summary showing the count for each extension
  Sort the results by count in descending order

So I made it a reality in an evening an it kinda works: https://github.com/statico/llmscript

It generates a script and a test suite, and then it attempts to fix the script until it passes the tests.

It’s written in Go, but I hardly know Go, and used Cursor to generate most of it in a few hours. It works with Ollama and Claude, and I added support for OpenAI but haven’t tested it. You can also run it in Docker if you want to sandbox it.

[skydhash]

> Given all this LLM availability, why can’t I write shell scripts like this?

Because it’s more optimal to generate the script once, then run it everywhere, even on resources constrained devices.