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Comment by mkw5053

1 month ago

This got me thinking about the Unix philosophy of composing small, specialized tools that each do one thing well. While at first glance a "single powerful tool" approach might seem aligned with that ethos, I think it actually runs counter to it. Forcing agents to reimplement ls, grep, and find throws away decades of battle-tested code. The real Unix-style approach would be giving agents more specialized tools, not fewer, and letting them learn to compose those tools effectively.