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Comment by breakpointalpha

Your millage may vary, but I just got Cursor (using Claude 4 Sonnet) to one shot a sequence of bash scripts that cleanup stale AWS resources. I pasted the Jira ticket description that I wrote, with a few examples and the script works perfectly. Saved me a few hours of bash writing and debugging because I can read bash, but not write it well.

It seems that the smaller the task and the more tightly defined the input and output, the better the LLMs are at one-shotting.

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