>What I've come to realise is that the power of having a bash sandbox with a programming language and API access to systems, combined with an agentic harness, results in outrageously good results for non technical users. It can effectively replace nearly every standard productivity app out there - both classic Microsoft Office style ones - and also web apps.

I very much doubt that tinkering with a non-repeatable, probabilistic process is how most non-technical users will routinely use software.

I can imagine power users taking this approach to _create_ or extend productivity tools for themselves and others, just like they have been doing with Excel for decades. It will not _replace_ productivity tools for most non-technical users.