Treating Coding Agents Like AI Research: A Black Box Experiment
peterjliu · x · 2026-08-07
The author draws an interesting analogy: working with AI coding agents is essentially like conducting AI research.
- Objective function: Test pass rates and micro-benchmarks.
- Gradient step: The coding agents writing the code.
- Black box: The developer completely ignores the specific code details generated by the agent.
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