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Re:Show HN: How to Build a Coding Agent (free workshop) by revskill on Sunday August 24, 2025 @06:51AM (#45003144)
Interesting.
Re:Show HN: How to Build a Coding Agent (free workshop) by ghuntley on Sunday August 24, 2025 @08:13AM (#45003649)
Keep an eye out for Sonnet generating Python files. What typically happens is: let's say you had a refactor that needs to happen, and let's say 100 symbols need renaming. Instead of invoking the edit tool 100 times, Sonnet has this behaviour where it will synthesise a Python program and then execute it to do it all in one shot.
Re:Show HN: How to Build a Coding Agent (free workshop) by gbrindisi on Sunday August 24, 2025 @08:50AM (#45003885)
I wonder how far I could go with a barebone agent prompted to take advantage of this with Sonnet and the Bash tool only, so that it will always try to use the tool to only do `python -c …`