alt Hacker NewsIf only the piping wasn't execessively cutting too.. `cat | head -10` -> `cat | head -20` -> `cat | head -40` yeah.. I think at some point we need to start sanitizing our tool outputs so that this just isn't necessary at all, long term fixing the tools (ie: gradle outputs like 500 lines of logs for a ... build succeeded), maybe short term a small model in front would be better than all this cut loop fail. One can wish.
My favorite is when Claude runs a slow process piped to tail only the last few lines, and then the result isn't what it expected, so it needs to rerun the whole thing.
Agents need a way to discard useless data out of context once it's served its purpose, instead of forcing them to preemptively tail everything.