Coding Agents

2026-03-17

Treat the agent as a meeseeks box. Have it perform one task and then kill itself. The goal is to use the minimum amount of context possible to achieve the task. This means scoping the task to be small and well defined and making heavy use of subagents.

Having conversations with the agent is not a good idea. Both for moral reasons:

• I am a human, talking to it is beneath me.
• I am not willing to let my mind be poisoned by its language. You are what you read.

And for the purpose of using the least amount of context possible .

They are extremely helpful in speeding up some aspects of software dev, but they are at this time not the panacea that is promised.