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trollbridgeyesterday at 2:34 PM1 replyview on HN

Executable markdown? Why not just write a shell script?


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jedwhiteyesterday at 6:44 PM

There are some tasks that LLMs are good at, but which can be hard to do with traditional command line tools or scripts. This is true even when you are a skilled coder and expert in Shell scripting. Examples include summarization, judgement-based evaluation, formatting etc.

Executable markdown provides a method of building these tasks into traditional pipelines as small, single-task-focused, composable modules. They also have the advantage that they can be easily shared and re-used.

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