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Alternatives for the EDIT tool of LLM agents

Salvatore Sanfilippo · 19 May 2026

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Specifying an edit by line number alone is fragile because a model can misremember what that line contains.

This means, basically, that just using line numbers is very fragile: to say, change line 22 with new="foobar" is not good.

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  1. This means, basically, that just using line numbers is very fragile: to say, change line 22 with new="foobar" is not good.

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