Developer吐槽s AI agent Fable for mangling ripgrep output with forced recursive flag

andersonbcdefg · x · 2026-08-26

A developer shares a frustration with managing 87 markdown files in a monorepo and highlights a failure case with the AI agent "Fable". Despite instructions to the contrary, Fable insists on adding a recursive flag (-r) when using ripgrep, mangling the output. The user notes that older models like Codex did not exhibit this behavior.

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