Comment by dboreham
1 day ago
I think it's kind of cute the way it writes Python scripts, but I've never seen it do that when the relevant native tool is on the PATH. It's like the most competent ever intern, on speed. No tool to convert SVG to PNG? No problem, I'll write a Python program to do that!
> I think it's kind of cute the way it writes Python scripts, but I've never seen it do that when the relevant native tool is on the PATH.
You haven't been paying attention then. I routinely see Claude and GPT models churning out python code to do stupid things like linting. Last week I even had a TypeScript project with prettier configured all over the place, including in a custom agent skill I added with the express purpose of getting the damned model to lint the code, being constantly prompted to run ad-hoc python code supposedly to format whitespaces. I even explicitly prompted one session to just use npm run lint, where I pointed out the exact line of code where prettier was invoked, and the session still churned python code to hande whitespaces.
My experience is the same, I can put that decision in the prompt, in a skill, in a hook, in agent.md, etc, it doesn't matter, after few iterations it starts again using useless python scripts to do anything from linting, to error checking, to parsing one liners of code, etc etc...