— “Elmo’s got the moves” playing in my head since I typed this article’s title —

I wrote a book on Bash scripting that I’m about to publish. It teaches you how to write Bash, and more importantly, how to write it right.

But cool kids don’t write code anymore, do they?

Maybe the time will never come again when we’ll need to read and understand code ourselves—AI agents will have us covered. Maybe it’s fine. Maybe you don’t need to know the basics.