Agentic coding notes from Galapagos Island
Why CEREBRO kept it
Direct agentic coding notes with practical patterns.
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I've been using AI fairly heavily since last November and the whole thing is a funny experience. An agent will do something that, if a human did it, you'd immediately fire them. My reaction, of course, is to act as if this is great and spin up a thousand agents so they can do even more of that. Mid-last year, I had GPT (maybe 5.0 or 5.1) try to find the source of a bug. Naturally, this code didn't have tests and git bisect wouldn't work, and it was a UI interaction bug for which I'm not even really qualified to write a test for, so I asked codex to bisect between dates X and Y to find the comm
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Megabyte-scale context windows eliminated the complex agentic loops these explorations assumed were necessary.
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