Components of A Coding Agent

How coding agents use tools, memory, and repo context to make LLMs work better in practice

Ahead of AI
I still find it incredible at the power that was unleashed by surrounding an LLM with a simple state machine, and giving it access to bash
That is why I am currently looking into building my own simple, heavily isolated coding agent. The bloat is already scary, but the bad decisions should make everyone shiver.
Ten years ago people would rant endlessly about things with more then one edge, that requires a glimpse of responsibility to use. Now everyone seems to be either in panic or hype mode, ignoring all good advice just to stay somehow relevant in a chaotic timeline.