It hurts to see your programs taken apart and their weaknesses exposed, but it will make you a better programmer.

Claude’s Routines feel like the clearest sign yet that terminal automation has outgrown shell scripts and one-off hacks.

isnt $? expanded inside the double quotes before being passed to the subshell, like any other variable? iow it's reporting the status from the previous echo command. try single quotes, or maybe i'm ...