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Saw Command Line Interface Guidelines today. Need to give it a closer read. But, I’m glad to see someone working on actual standards in this space. Could make for a good agent skill…

A few years ago I wanted to automate extracting my calendar events into markdown files in my Obsidian vault. It turned into a project and a half, a brittle pipeline of bash, Ruby, AppleScript, and a fork of icalBuddy that was on its last legs. Here’s how a few hours on a Sunday morning with Claude Code replaced it all with a modern EventKit-based Swift CLI.

If you work with a computer in any way to put food on the table, you need to be ready for what is happening right now with AI. I’ve only been using AI myself for about 10 months. But now it’s part of just about everything I do dev-wise. I haven’t written a single line of code by hand in over 3 months. In a 300k line of code app I’d say I wrote maybe 5% of it by hand. In just this short time I’ve seen multiple giant leaps in efficiency and productivity. Last February, AI was basically a fancy…