Forget Flags and Scripts: Just Rename the File

Uptrenda 12 points 10 comments March 18, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)

Quarrelsome

this is satire, right?

castral

It feels wrong but I can't quite put my finger on the reason why... It will make version control more hectic, for sure. It also seems to be conflating identification with configuration which seems non-ideal. What about versioning and upgrading? How do I find a "well-known" entry point with a file name of flags? Every read now becomes an expensive find and grep lesson... Yeah, I don't like it.

csb6

Seems a lot easier to have a --help flag that lists all of the options and their function. That is self-documenting (assuming the descriptions are useful) and helps with discovery. Changing the name of the file to foo--bar.exe doesn't seem any easier than writing foo.exe --bar

abrookewood

You could skip the underlying mechanism by renaming Claude.exe and then it just passes the name as a new chat.

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