alt Hacker News"LLM" as well, because coding agents are already more than just an LLM. There is very useful context management around it, and tool calling, and ability to run tests/programs, etc. Though they are LLM-based systems, they are not LLMs.
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interstice • yesterday at 4:11 AM
This rapidly gets philosophical. If I use tools am I not handling the codebase? Are we classing LLM as tool or user in this scenario?
Indeed. If the LLM calls a chess engine tool behind the scenes, it would be able to play excellent chess as well.