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theshrike79 on April 27, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple releases eight small AI language models aime...

Shortcuts is getting to a point where I'd prefer to just write actual code instead of fighting with the stupid Scratch-style coding blocks.

_mlbt on April 27, 2024 [–]

That sounds a lot like AppleScript... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript

I wonder how hard it would be for Apple to rebuild Shortcuts around an AppleScript backend to allow power users the ability to edit the scripts directly.

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