How to build a coding agent

Where is the program synthesis? My way of thinking is given primitives as tools, i want the model to construct and return the program to execute.

Of course following nix philosophy is another way.

Sonnet does this via the edit tool and bash tool. It’s inbuilt to the model.

Interesting.

Keep an eye out for Sonnet generating Python files. What typically happens is: let's say you had a refactor that needs to happen, and let's say 100 symbols need renaming. Instead of invoking the edit tool 100 times, Sonnet has this behaviour where it will synthesise a Python program and then execute it to do it all in one shot.

I wonder how far I could go with a barebone agent prompted to take advantage of this with Sonnet and the Bash tool only, so that it will always try to use the tool to only do `python -c …`