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Using LLM in the Shebang Line — Natural Language Files as Executable Programs
Simon Willison shares a technique from Hacker News: placing an LLM invocation in a script's shebang line makes plain English text files directly executable as programs. This turns natural language instructions into runnable scripts via the LLM CLI tool. A creative proof-of-concept that blurs the line between documentation and code, demonstrating how LLM tooling is enabling genuinely new programming paradigms beyond code completion.
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