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Coding agents don't always need a smarter model. They need better context discipline

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One thing that makes coding agents fall apart is not intelligence, it's context management. They scan half the repo, forget the original task, re-read files they already inspected, change something unrelated, run a huge test suite, then burn more tokens rediscovering what they just did. I would lov…

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  1. 2026-08-29 06:00 · r/AI_Agents
    Coding agents don't always need a smarter model. They need better context discipline

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