#coding-agents — Public Fediverse posts

It turns out that stuffing your AGENTS.md file with every bit of info you can find might actually be hurting your coding agent performance. 📉

New research suggests that the redundancy problem is real and that building context files incrementally is a much smarter approach. 💡

Learn why less is more and how to build context files that actually work in our latest breakdown. 👉 https://developer.upsun.com/posts/ai/agents-md-less-is-more

#CodingAgents #LLM #SoftwareEngineering #DevTools

"For the last decade, fast-to-ship beat fast-to-run. Not anymore. [...] AI got good at the hard languages." by Noah Mitchem

https://medium.com/@NMitchem/if-ai-writes-your-code-why-use-python-bf8c4ba1a055

#python #rustlang #golang #artificialintelligence #codingagents

Is building a SKILL actually better than writing an LLM enabled CLI? 🤔

Pure Java gives you total control and performance, but it’s often highly opinionated. Now that I’m building a code tutorial SKILL, the "coding agent" takes the wheel.

Is the flexibility worth the trade-off? Documenting my journey here:

https://shaaf.dev/post/2026-05-05-lessons-from-building-my-first-claude-skill-a-code-tutorial-generator/

#Java #CodingAgents #BuildInPublic

🤖 Coding agents assume silently, overengineer, and touch code you never asked them to. These aren't bugs — it's their nature.

I break down Karpathy's 4 principles (107k ⭐) to keep them in check: think before coding, simplicity first, surgical changes, and goal-driven execution.

https://www.cosmoscalibur.com/en/blog/2026/guia-de-comportamiento-para-agentes-de-codigo

#AI #CodingAgents #Dev

Oh, rejoice! 🎉 The age-old dream of turning coding agents into glorified cloud hamsters has arrived! Just when we thought laptops couldn't live without them, Mistral Medium 3.5 boldly sends them into the cloud abyss, where they valiantly notify you upon completing their inscrutable magic. 🚀✨
https://mistral.ai/news/vibe-remote-agents-mistral-medium-3-5 #cloudcomputing #codingagents #Mistral3.5 #techinnovation #AIadventure #HackerNews #ngated