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How to build a coding agent

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469 points ghuntley | 1 comments | 24 Aug 25 03:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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faangguyindia ◴[24 Aug 25 04:33 UTC] No.45001426[source]▶
Anyone can build a coding agent which works on a) fresh code base b) when you've unlimited token budget

now build it for old codebase, let's see how precisely it edits or removes features without breaking the whole codebase

lets see how many tokens it consumes per bug fix or feature addition.

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1. righthand ◴[24 Aug 25 06:04 UTC] No.45001784[source]▶
Surprise, as rambunctious dev who’s socially hacked their way through promotions, I will just convince our manager we need to rewrite the platform in a new stack or convince them that I need to write a new server to handle the feature. No old tech needed!