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slopinthebagtoday at 2:08 AM1 replyview on HN

I love these. Coding agents aren't very difficult to build, it's a TUI + tools + getting a nice agent loop working. The hardest part seems to be supporting all of the different providers and model quirks. What is interesting is seeing the experimentation: some provide tons of tools, others provide a single python interpreter and have the agent use tools via sandboxed python scripts, others use minimal tools and lean on bash. Personally I want a harness that gives a ton of control to the user to let them steer the LLM, less agent and more augmentation. Maybe I'll have to build it myself. If anyone has ideas, let me know.


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afzalivetoday at 3:51 AM

Pi.dev is pretty good in giving tons of control to the use and has extensions that you can easily build.

Although people are complaining about its RAM usage in this thread, I haven't bothered to check how much RAM it uses.