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by brainless 3mo ago
Yes, this is how I am building my agent as well. A chain of mostly deterministic steps for every incoming prompt. Run as many tools without help of LLMs, gather errors - feed to LLMs, then go back to deterministic steps as soon as possible.
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by brainless 3mo ago
Yes, I agree with this. I am not focusing on tests as much and I think that is a big mistake. Agents need to immediately understand something is off.
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by brainless 3mo ago
Not necessarily. I have been building client projects for the last few months only using coding agents. I use way more existing tools to handle a lot more of our digital footprint than I used to before: pdf, images, excel, ocr and many more
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by brainless 3mo ago
This is an interesting share, thanks. Yes, that is my mental model. Use coding agents to generate more "programs" (scripts) to automate everything. Have edge case handlers - and these handlers can develop/update the original
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by brainless 3mo ago
It is not blasphemy if langgraph is trying to do that. As I understand langgraph manages orchestration in custom built agents. I usually stay away from systems which already make it seem as if building agents is a ritual. What I am saying i
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by brainless 3mo ago
I kind of have a different idea of agents. I totally believe in a deterministic scaffold but I really think that an agent should be as deterministic as possible - the more code, the better. Think of a typical loop we may ask of Claude Code
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by brainless 3mo ago
Yes, I know that is how it would seem in this ultra-capitalistic world. But no. I am a believer, follower of Sci-Fi and a dreamer. I see AI as way to tear down structures - "When everyone is super, no one will be". The next 10 yea
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by brainless 3mo ago
"company makes and distributes a specialized coding agent for CSS" - weird that you think this is a path because I think this is not as appreciated as it should be. No-code has been in a poor state for many reasons. I agree that p
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by brainless 3mo ago
I am not sure if you mean good, bad or ugly but yeah this username is perhaps with me since 1998. I used to hang around in MIT, Stanford and many other Uni IRC rooms. I was this odd username from a far away city. Tim Berners-Lee once asked
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by brainless 3mo ago
The key word is "already". I myself absolutely expect world changing results. But that will need time. I can only say what I know. My own experiments in building nocodo, a coding agent are 12-13 years old. Pre-LLM. I used template
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by brainless 3mo ago
A lot of those products are from big companies who seem to be struggling the most. Software does not solve bureaucracy. As an indie engineer, I have absolutely no doubt what I am doing myself. But that change does not mean my products will
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by brainless 3mo ago
"Anthropic is actively campaigning to end software engineering" - good but are they the only ones? I do not like Anthropic after their recent locking mechanisms. I use opencode with GLM, Mimo, Qwen, and what not. I use Codex as we
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by brainless 3mo ago
For those outside India and/or non-active users of UPI - it drives so many transactions that even for an engineer, I forget how often I use it: - Payments between family members - Payments for every tiny/small item - a bag a
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by brainless 3mo ago
"i use elixir and carefully watch" - I do not watch agents, at all. Rust and Typescript. When I use Typescript only I have some guidelines so that we build the stack to be as strict and type driven as possible.
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by brainless 3mo ago
I get the point of this demo but if instructions are clear, tech stack related resources are available, then the models do not differ as much. I use different models all the time. And mostly lower cost ones. I do not know how people write s
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by brainless 3mo ago
Thanks! I will join your Discord server then.
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by brainless 3mo ago
I have a project on very similar lines, https://github.com/brainless/dwata , which I have not been developing for the past few months. I have been meaning to get back to it and I really like what I see on your project p
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by brainless 3mo ago
I started building an app with similar goals but with the very different approach. I work on my own coding agent, https://github.com/brainless/nocodo , where I have been trying to build a provenance based engine that wi
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by brainless 3mo ago
That is a good point. I do think these models would be good in the decision making. The large models are trained to use tool calling. Perhaps the small models can generate the text that would express their decision but not generate good JSO
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by brainless 3mo ago
I recently came across this model and I would love to try it with my coding agent soon. I really like the idea of small models that can reason but do not have too much knowledge. Also, no emphasis on tool calls. I think the agent should do
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by brainless 4mo ago
I am not a language nerd but I keep on experimenting in my own ways to use the type system to generate code that is more reliable. I build a coding agent specifically for small models, which makes everything harder. I started this chat with
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by brainless 4mo ago
I have been building a coding agent for small and even tiny LLMs, local inference. I experiment with Qwen 3.5 0.8B but that is too tiny. 4B is a better one for most of my needs. I mix with 9B and then up to 20B models (not on my computer).
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by brainless 4mo ago
This is good and terrible. The extra effort a model has taken is good but the way to do it is terrible. Tasks that can use a lot of deterministic paths and some creative (generative AI) paths are being turned into tokemaxxing strategies. Br
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by brainless 4mo ago
I agree with the core idea. I am building a coding agent for non-engineers on small/local LLMs only. Commits are great but for an agent that works for the non-engineers (what I am building), commits cannot be represent the chain of tho
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by brainless 4mo ago
Thanks! And yes, an "architect" agent will be needed to close the loop.
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An experimental coding agent for small (<10B) and tiny (<1B) LLMs(github.com)
1 points by brainless 4mo ago|3 comments
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by brainless 4mo ago
Hey folks, I have been experimenting on something that I am still not sure will work but it just might! I started off building a generic coding agent but focused on small/medium models, like GPT OSS 120B or 20B or models in between. I
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by brainless 5mo ago
Thank you! I am not a researcher, I am a software engineer and I have been chasing better harness for quite some time now. I firmly believe that we can bring down the costs for much of our productivity needs by a huge factor if there are gu
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by brainless 5mo ago
If coding is such a big part of LLM agents' usage at the moment, I do not understand how far the best models will continue to shine and take the largest chunk of revenue. I am far away from tech hubs but I think better harness will uti
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by brainless 5mo ago
I really believe that the Spreadsheets UX is great for mainstream users and that is what drives me for my coding agent that uses the sheets UX: https://github.com/brainless/nocodo Super early stage but I am really happ

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