MindGodsComponents of a Coding Agent
https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/components-of-a-coding-agent
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
unfortunately all the agent cli makers have decided that simply giving it access to bash is not enough. instead we need to jam every possible functionality we can imagine into a javascript “TUI”.
If all you want is a program that calls the model in a loop and offers a bash tool, then ask Claude Code to build that. You won't like it though!
For a preview of what it'd be like, just tell your AI chat app that you'll run bash commands for it, and please change the app in your "current directory" to "sort the output before printing it", or some such request.
I think you get him wrong? He is already concerned about "bash on steroids" and current tools add concerning amounts of steroids to everything.