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Re: Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

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Post by Freedom2 » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 2:29 AM UTC

ttul wrote: post #25

I built this for my own company. Armature is on to something. You start by analyzing the choices agents would make for various use cases and then glean what, if anything, you might do to start tilting the agents in the direction of your own product and away from the competitor. Selling to agents is similar to selling to humans. You dump money into marketing to make sure agents find your solution around every corner f…

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Re: Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

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Post by rcfox » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 2:29 AM UTC

IgorPartola wrote: post #39

For some reason Claude Code keeps using awk, sed, and even Python to do basic file editing. Anyone know why that changed with the 5 series?

I've noticed that too. Maybe the normal Write tool has to output the entire file and this is an attempt to reduce token usage?

Re: Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

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Post by harisingh1612 » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 2:31 AM UTC

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Re: Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

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Post by ryeguy » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 2:34 AM UTC

IgorPartola wrote: post #39

For some reason Claude Code keeps using awk, sed, and even Python to do basic file editing. Anyone know why that changed with the 5 series?

What does this question have to do with the linked article?

Re: Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

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Post by taikhoom » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 2:35 AM UTC

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Re: Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

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Post by elzbardico » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 2:47 AM UTC

I remember when the SEO nightmare started, it looked like an innocent intelectual investigation exercise like this.

Re: Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

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Post by negativefactori » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 2:49 AM UTC

thedreammachine wrote: post #38

I've been tracking the same for a few months. All open source and available here: https://preseason.ai/

nice!

Re: Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

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Post by nijave » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 2:51 AM UTC

IgorPartola wrote: post #39

For some reason Claude Code keeps using awk, sed, and even Python to do basic file editing. Anyone know why that changed with the 5 series?

Actually, yes. Probably this https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/88041#issue...

Re: Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

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Post by mpalmer » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 2:53 AM UTC

luciana1u wrote: post #35

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Using LLMs to write comments is against guidelines, even if you make the text lowercase.

Re: Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

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Post by tiffanyh » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 2:58 AM UTC

ttul wrote: post #25

I built this for my own company. Armature is on to something. You start by analyzing the choices agents would make for various use cases and then glean what, if anything, you might do to start tilting the agents in the direction of your own product and away from the competitor. Selling to agents is similar to selling to humans. You dump money into marketing to make sure agents find your solution around every corner f…

Doesn’t this ignore that the future of ads will probably just be some type of affiliate revenue going back to the agent for any product they help recommend.