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Don't Write Markdown Files for Your Coding Agent. Write Scripts.

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If you want agents to do what you want, you need to learn how to box them into deterministic actions. Unfortunately, this is not what current coding agents are good at. They are designed to be exploratory and open ended. They take a vague prompt, produce a plausible patch, run tests, loop a few tim…

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  1. 2026-11-05 11:29 · DEV Community — AI
    Don't Write Markdown Files for Your Coding Agent. Write Scripts.

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