AI Bitter lessons?

questionable point of view, interesting as rhetorical point of view

"Essentially, we should avoid poisoning AI's native capabilities with our supposedly superior guidance, because it's not actually superior."

Bitter Lesson Engineering | Daniel Miessler

The Bitter Lesson by
Rich Sutton
March 13, 2019

AI: building Coding Agent

rasbt/mini-coding-agent: Minimal and readable coding agent harness implementation in Python to explain the core components of coding agents. @GitHub (py)

a minimal local agent loop with:

• workspace snapshot collection
• stable prompt plus turn state
• structured tools
• approval handling for risky tools
• transcript and memory persistence
• bounded delegation

Components of A Coding Agent - by Sebastian Raschka, PhD

How coding agents use tools, memory, and repo context to make LLMs work better in practice

design of coding agents and agent harnesses: what they are, how they work, and how the different pieces fit together in practice. Readers of my Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) and Build a Large Reasoning Model (From Scratch) books often ask about agents,