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by parasti 33 days ago
> These agentic AI's are already smart enough to figure out a highly optimized path to code exploration or search.

Hasn't been my experience. We used to use Augment Code at work which has a thing called Context Engine - basically an MCP that can answer natural language queries about pre-indexed code. Then we switched to Claude Code, which for some reason prefers to use sed to read from files using line ranges from its own memory (this despite having a range-capable read tool). I don't know, does that really mean that sed is the highly optimized path?
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spoiler 33 days ago
Lol... I noticed it does weird stuff sometimes. I'll see it generate a python script inline on the CLI to edit files. Like... Yo what the fuck? It literally used the edit tool until 5 turn ago.

Also, it'll run a formatter, read, edit to undo auto formatting and then continue on its merry way. What is the point of that??? Lol

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vorticalbox 33 days ago
I’ve seen Claude write a one line Perl script to pull items from a json file.
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