“you shouldn’t source shell scripts from LLMs every time you open your shell”, but the counterpoint is searching and reading bash documentation, so it’s impossible to say if it’s bad or not….

one thing that I tried recently and worked very well is “just-in-time dotfiles”. I got a new work laptop and did all the shell/tmux/vim/etc configs by asking claude thins like “render the active k8s cluster and namespace on my tmux status line”, and they nail it every single time

While I understand the hypothesis, it attracts so many AI slop “it’s not just X, it’s Y” posters. Not to mention the insufferable tone that this approach is inevitable.

There’s no such approach! Nobody is shipping software like that (yet). Ship it first, brag about it later.