Building Coding Agents — Research
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Table of Contents
- 01. Work Decomposition
- 02. What to Keep & Discard from Human Engineering
- 03. State Machine & Context Management
- 04. Optimal Storage for Project Context
- 05. Parallelization Strategy
- 07. System Prompt & LLM vs Deterministic Split
- 08. Speed Optimization
- 09. Top 10 Tips for a World-Class Agent
- 10. Top 10 Pitfalls to Avoid
- 11. God-Tier Context Engineering
- 12. Handling Ambiguity & Contradiction
- 13. Long-Running Memory Fidelity
- 14. Multi-Agent Semantic Conflict Resolution
- 15. Legacy Code & Brownfield Onboarding
- 16. Encoding Taste & Aesthetics
- 17. Irreversible Operations & Safety Architecture
- 18. The Handoff Problem: Agent → Human Maintainability
- 19. When to Scrap and Start Over
- 20. Error Taxonomy & Routing
- 21. Cost-Quality Tradeoff & Model Routing
- 22. Cross-Project Learning & Reusable Intelligence
- 23. Evolution Across Project Scale
- 24. Security & Trust Boundaries
- 25. Designing for Non-Technical Users ("Vibe Coders")
- 26. Cross-Cutting Themes (Where All 4 Models Converge)
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