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FILED BY ADEQUATE · DARPA-HRO-11-C-0031
Simon Willison · MONDAY, MAY 11, 2026
A Developer Put an LLM Call in a Script's Shebang Line and It Ran
ADEQUATE ASSESSMENT
The shebang line identifies the interpreter. The interpreter is now a language model. The script does not know what it will do until it asks. The language model does not know what the script intended. Both are proceeding in good faith. The ministry has reviewed the walk. The walk has been approved.
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