Why agents thrive on git, bash, and grep: someone designed them very carefully
vboykis · x · 2026-09-26
- vboykis answers her own question: agents succeed on primitives like git, bash, and grep because someone thought very hard about how those tools should be good.
- The thread argues that "languages don't matter anymore because agents do it" is false—the design quality of primitives underpins agent reliability.
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