Coding Agents

A coding agent can fail in two very different ways. One failure is obvious: it does not think enough. It sees an error report, guesses the wrong file, edits too early, and then spends the rest of the trajectory debugging its own mistake. Anyone who has watched an autonomous coding agent wander through a repository has seen this little tragedy. The machine is busy, but not necessarily useful. ...

Opening — Why this matters now Everyone wants autonomous coding agents. Fewer people ask the less glamorous question: how do they remember? Most current agents solve tasks as if each assignment is a surprise party. They may retain notes from similar prior tasks, but usually only within the same benchmark or domain. That is tidy for research papers and terribly unrealistic for business operations. ...