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Coding agents beat million token context via grep and sed retrieval

April 5, 2026God of Prompt

God of Prompt cites Duke research claiming coding agents outperform million-token context models on long documents because classic tools like grep and sed provide better retrieval than attention alone.

Duke researchers just proved that coding agents are better at processing long documents than models with million-token context windows.
Not because of longer context. Because grep and sed are better retrieval tools than attention.
+17.3% average improvement
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