Every time an AI gives me a terminal command, it comes in Bash format with backslashes at the end of each line. Correct Bash. Completely unusable in PowerShell without manual cleanup.

Delete the backslash. Rejoin the line. Delete the next one. Rejoin. Repeat five or six times per command.

Thirty to sixty seconds, depending on the length. Multiplied by however many commands come up in a session. It adds up the way small annoyances always do — not dramatically, just persistently. You don't notice it costing you until you add it up.

I built a normaliser. Paste the Bash command in, click once, get back something PowerShell will actually run. The intent is preserved. The formatting debris is gone.

There's nothing glamorous in this one. No interesting product insight, no pivot, no lesson about AI-assisted development. Sometimes the gap between a workflow that hums and one that grinds you down is a single small tool that does one boring thing reliably.

Build the normaliser. Preserve the momentum.

npx create-next-app@latest my-app \
  --typescript \
  --tailwind \
  --app \
  --no-src-dir