alt Hacker NewsSeems 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.
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selcuka • yesterday at 11:50 PM
Pi even installs ripgrep and fd if it can't find them in the path.
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.