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Comment by culi

1 hour ago

My biggest pet peeve with agents is when people beg their (non-deterministic) agents to do something that a lint rule could've accomplished

Seems like 80% of agent use boils down to: grep | sed -i

Which is kind of cool if you’re unaware enough to know to do it yourself.

Oh, and find. Agents use find a lot.

  • So it turns out that a lot of these unix utilities have such bad UX that having a tool that knows how to really leverage them feels like a superpower.

    If you've ever used an LLM to deal with ffmpeg you'll know exactly what I mean.