Show HN: A scriptable text editor for LLMs
github.com/dhamidiBuilt this out of curiosity to see whether LLMs get better a editing if they express edits as a series of operations instead of a diff.
I don't have my answers yet, but actually building a PoC was the first step.
Claude seems to be happy to use the tool and write fake elisp just fine.
Think of it as sed without the `s`, and a tiny bit of Emacs instead.
What I'm looking for: fellow experimenters to get feedback and maybe develop the idea further.
The implementation is intentionally naïve.
Have fun!
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It's certainly worth exploring. Thee way most agents work right now bugs me. Sending huge diffs seems inefficient, uses a lot of tokens, and is prone to error. Another option that came to mind is working at the AST level, but that's a whole other can of worms to open.