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How to build a coding agent

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469 points ghuntley | 3 comments | 24 Aug 25 03:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ofirpress ◴[24 Aug 25 03:55 UTC] No.45001234[source]▶
We (the Princeton SWE-bench team) built an agent in ~100 lines of code that does pretty well on SWE-bench, you might enjoy it too: https://github.com/SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent
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1. faangguyindia ◴[24 Aug 25 05:46 UTC] No.45001716[source]▶
when a problem is entirely self contained in a file, it's very easy to edit it with LLM.

that's not the case with a codebase, where things are littered around in tune with specific model of organisation the developer had in mind.

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2. koakuma-chan ◴[24 Aug 25 05:48 UTC] No.45001723[source]▶
> in tune with specific model of organisation

You wish

3. fmbb ◴[24 Aug 25 07:16 UTC] No.45002076[source]▶
Lumpers win again!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpers_and_splitters