Comment by nullsanity
14 days ago
I'm not sure you understand how those terminal programs are rendered - but the amount of control code data sent to Claude would be way, way more than using command line sed.
14 days ago
I'm not sure you understand how those terminal programs are rendered - but the amount of control code data sent to Claude would be way, way more than using command line sed.
You may want to take a look at `man ed`, `info ed`, or [0]. ed is many things, but verbose is not one of them.
In particular, it's designed for the teletype era, when (a) the user would have a trace of all the commands they'd sent and output they'd received, since it was literally printed on paper, and (b) output was literally printed on paper, and so had a direct, non-negligible cost.
This is more or less exactly the situation LLMs find themselves in. they can attend to ~all the prior output in their context window, but there's a direct cost to adding new symbols to context.
We've got a tool for exactly that setting, so it would be fun to try it!
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor)