[philipwhiuk]

Ah yes, don't fix the agents, fix the tools.

What a ridiculously backwards approach.

We were supposed to get agents who could use human tooling. Instead we are apparently told to write interfaces for this stumbling expensive mess to use.

Maybe, just maybe, if the human can know to, and use, the AST tool fine, the problem is not the tool but the agent.

[jxf]

It's much harder to search using an AST tool for a human. It's certainly harder than grepping, for example. I use AST tools myself, but it takes a while to represent a complex structure in a big codebase when I need to look for that.