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Introducing texted – a text editor for LLMs

Introducing texted – a text editor for LLMs

...what happens when LLMs edit text like humans?

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Dario Hamidi
Jun 05, 2025
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Seeing LLMs struggle with file edits sometimes degenerates into this:

Model: let me edit the file to remove comments.

Tool(edit_file): old_str is not present in the file

Model: I see there is an issue with editing the file, let me try again

Tool(edit_file): old_str and new_str must be different

Model: Let me try a different approach

Tool(bash): sed -i "s/\"ol…

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