I copied a "minimal" coding agent. Then I read it — and minimal didn't mean what I thought.
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A month ago I started building a coding agent from scratch, with one rule: build first, then read. I'd picked pi as my reference precisely because it was described as the smallest serious harness — four packages, four tools, a system prompt under a thousand tokens, and competitive benchmark scores…
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- 2026-08-23 12:08 · DEV Community — AI
I copied a "minimal" coding agent. Then I read it — and minimal didn't mean what I thought.