At 1 influence, 1 and 1 , Sharpshooter is a stable safety switch against a metagame that may be increasingly interested in using tools such as Swordsman to hunt down AI breakers or just your standard program-trashers. It deals with most if not all ICE it can break with cost efficiency.

It's only real downside is being one-use, but with the amount of recursion in the game right now, most decks won't find that to be a problem. Probably worth a look outside of Shaper, definately worth one in-faction.