47% of what my agent writes never reaches a file
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I counted the characters my agent wrote for a machine to consume, and sorted them by where they ended up. A third went through the write and edit tools. A fifth went through a shell heredoc into a file. The remaining 47% went into the standard input of a process, and stopped existing the moment tha…
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- 2026-10-23 04:52 · DEV Community — AI
47% of what my agent writes never reaches a file