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Hey everyone, I'm here today to teach you how to build a coding agent. By this stage of the conference, you may be tired of hearing the word "agent".
You hear the word frequently. However, it appears that everyone is using this term loosely without a clear understanding of what it means or how these coding agents operate internally. It's time to pull back the hood and show that there is no moat.
Learning how to build a coding agent is one of the best things you can do for your personal development in 2025, as it teaches you the fundamentals. Once you understand these fundamentals, you'll move from being a consumer of AI to a producer of AI who can automate things with AI.
Let me open with the following facts:
it's not that hard
to build a coding agent
it's 300 lines of code
running in a loop
With LLM tokens, that's all it is.
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