Agent builders are finding that sometimes the easiest way for an agent to do its job is to simply give it a few Unix tools and “let it cook.”
A recent project from Vercel found that stripping away loads of metadata and instead giving the model a BASH shell and access to data produced superior results.
And another group of open source developers is finding that a simple BASH while loop and some time alone is all that is needed to execute even complex tasks.
“Models are getting smarter and context windows are getting larger, so maybe the…
