Since agents became good enough to write low-stakes software without you needing to validate the code they write yourself, I've been experimenting with several different ways to build tools for myself on demand.
If I'm working on a PC, the overhead required to scaffold a CLI, webapp, or even native...
One of the most limiting factors of LLM agents is they have limited cross-session memory.
When working on software projects, this limitation isn't much of an issue because the agent can search the project and read files to understand the current state and what it needs to do to make the changes...
What is it to build software with coding agents?
It's something distinctly different than writing code by hand.
In 2022, I had recently started a new job as a software engineer.
As usual, there were a lot of new things to learn and one of those was getting comfortable working in a programming language that I hadn't used professionally before.
I enjoy writing.
Most of my writing here is about software and technology, but lately I've been struggling.