Get the latest tech news

How to build a coding agent


It's not that hard to build a coding agent. 300 lines of code running in a loop with LLM tokens. You just keep throwing tokens at the loop, and then you've got yourself an agent.

please build your ownas the knowledgewill transform youfrom being a consumerto a producer that canautomate thingsThe tech industry is almost like a conveyor belt - we always need to be learning new things. The Oracle is just GPT wired in as a tool that Claude Sonnet can function call for guidance, to check work progress, and to conduct research/planning. Then the harness (Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, Amp) also needs to allocate some additional memory, which means you end up with approximately 176k tokens usable.

Get the Android app

Or read this on Hacker News

Read more on:

Photo of coding agent

coding agent

Photo of free workshop

free workshop

Related news:

News photo

Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix

News photo

Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

News photo

Amazon AI coding agent hacked to inject data wiping commands