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1 | # Coding Agents |
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| 3 | ## 2026-03-17 |
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| 4 | Treat the agent as a meeseeks box. Have it perform one task and then kill itself. |
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| 5 | The goal is to use the minimum amount of context possible to achieve the task. |
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| 6 | This means scoping the task to be small and well defined and making heavy use of subagents. |
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| 8 | Having conversations with the agent is not a good idea. |
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| 9 | Both for moral reasons: |
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10 | - I am a human, talking to it is beneath me. |
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| 11 | - I am not willing to let my mind be poisoned by its language. |
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| 12 | You are what you read. |
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13 | And for the purpose of using the least amount of context possible . |
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| 15 | They are extremely helpful in speeding up some aspects of software dev, but they are at this time not the panacea that is promised. |
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