Every story and comment from the Hacker News API, in a layout borrowed from 2001.
A comment on Agentic Engineering Patterns.
The "give it bash" pattern sounds scary until you realize the alternative is 47 intermediate tool calls that fail silently.
Letting the agent write and run scripts means the agent debugs when something breaks. The feedback loop tightens dramatically.
The trick is sandboxing + cost limits. Not preventing shell access.
There are no comments on this comment yet.
The "give it bash" pattern sounds scary until you realize the alternative is 47 intermediate tool calls that fail silently.
Letting the agent write and run scripts means the agent debugs when something breaks. The feedback loop tightens dramatically.
The trick is sandboxing + cost limits. Not preventing shell access.