He deleted 10,000+ lines of agent code after realizing shell primitives suffice
remilouf · x · 2026-09-08
Engineer remilouf reports removing over 10k lines of code from his agent harness after realizing that everything, including subagents, can be expressed with shell primitives — a minimalist engineering stance against heavyweight custom frameworks.
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