Which commands need prefixing by "stdbuf"?

When I have a long running Bash pipeline of commands, and I often can't see any signs of life due to I/O buffering. I found online that buffering can be disabled using stdbuf. An example shown [here](https://linux.die.net/man/1/stdbuf) is: tail -f access.log | stdbuf -oL cut -d aq aq -f1 | uniq However, it is unclear to me which commands in the pipeline need to be prefixed by the stdbuf command. I therefore add it to every command. For no buffering, I might do: cd ~/tmp stdbuf -i0 -o0 -e0 find /i \! -type d | \ stdbuf -i0 -o0 -e0 sed -u -n -e \ 's=.*\&1 | stdbuf -i0 -o0 -e0 tee find.out This makes my code very noisy in a cognitive sense. How do I decide which commands need prefixing with stdbuf?