Developer Builds a Coding Agent From Scratch to Learn AI Fundamentals
sharpeye_wnl · x · 2026-11-13
A developer is building his own coding agent without using AI-generated code. He argues the exercise teaches how AI systems work under the hood, covering context management, memory architectures, tool registries, and other fundamentals.
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