What I Learned Building My Own Coding Agent

What I Learned Building My Own Coding Agent

Thorsten Ball just dropped a post called How To Build An Agent where he argues that a coding agent is just “an LLM, a loop, and enough tokens.” He’s right. You can build one in 200 lines of Go. Go read it. It’s the cleanest articulation of the core idea I’ve seen.

I read it and nodded along for the first half, and then started yelling at my screen for the second half.