Dev syntax-highlights nested string literals inside a coding agent, making prompts readable again
lucasmeijer · x · 2026-09-22
lucasmeijer shares a practice from atelier's coding agent: syntax highlighting and formatting agent content, including inner string literals in different languages and doubly-nested ones, which makes the output easy to read again.
In the same thread, mitsuhiko notes Claude Code currently synthesizes edit views in the transcript from git diffs, and agrees the display layer deserves a closer look.
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