Your text file is the prompt now: LLM's shebang trick

Simon Willison's llm CLI tool already does a lot — run prompts, manage models, call tools, store logs in SQLite. But a Hacker News comment last week sent him down a rabbit hole, and the result is one of those tricks that makes you stop and stare. You can now put llm in a shebang line and make a plain text file directly executable. "But seriously, you can put a shebang on an english text file now (if you're sufficiently brave) [...]" — Kim_Bruning, Hacker News What this actually looks like The si