Insights from a Year of Building an AI Coding Agent
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vinhnx
11mo ago· 5 min readenOpinion
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Summary
The article discusses the author's experience of building an AI coding agent over a year, highlighting challenges and achievements in the process.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledI didn’t know that my world was about to change last July 4th, at hackathon where I first prototyped a CLI coding tool that became Codebuff.
We may not have won the first round, but I’m more fired up and excited for the future than ever.
We got so many things right initially: Most of these are standard or becoming standard in coding agents today!
We thought we'd be the best within months. Here's what went wrong — and why I'm more excited than ever.
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