A Brief History of Ralph

Re:A Brief History of Ralph by msla on Monday January 19, 2026 @02:25PM (#46683326)

Surely that would be better written as

    cat PROMPT.md | cat | npx --yes @sourcegraph/amp

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Re:A Brief History of Ralph by GibbonBreath on Monday January 19, 2026 @05:49PM (#46685643)

You've removed the loop. This pipeline executes once and then halts.

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Re:A Brief History of Ralph by wild_egg on Monday January 19, 2026 @07:38PM (#46686520)

Aside from losing the loop (the whole point of the command), why the double `cat`?

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Re:A Brief History of Ralph by mkl on Monday January 19, 2026 @08:17PM (#46686722)

I think it was an attempt at a useless use of cat joke (cat isn't needed at all here, but IMHO helps readability).

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