But a coding agent is free to write any relevant context elsewhere, where it is not necessarily constrained by the syntactic requirements of a programming langu

But a coding agent is free to write any relevant context elsewhere, where it is not necessarily constrained by the syntactic requirements of a programming language. When we write Assembly, we also tend to write comments. It's not like people can't program in Assembly. Most console games in the eighties were written in Assembly, for example. I used to write programs in Assembly in the early 90s. The difficulty with Assembly is local reasoning, like register allocations (which was particularly annoying when we had few registers, some of which were specialised) and jump targets, which doesn't require a lot of context, but is still tedious compared to C. Global reasoning is pretty much identical to C.