I'm guessing this is "Do-nothing scripting: The key to gradual automation" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29083367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29

I'm guessing this is "Do-nothing scripting: The key to gradual automation" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29083367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29083367 Although the example uses Python, rather than shell.