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title: How Coding Agents Work
date: ‘2026-08-24 12:00:00’
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- Agentic Engineering
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In Chapter 1, you learned to communicate with coding agents — giving them context, writing
clear prompts, and building persistent memory systems. Now, let’s look under the hood: what actually happens when you
press Enter? *From simple autocomplete to autonomous digital…
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In Chapter 1, you learned to communicate with coding agents — giving them context, writing
clear prompts, and building persistent memory systems. Now, let’s look under the hood: what actually happens when you
press Enter? *From simple autocomplete to autonomous digital…
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In Chapter 1, you learned to communicate with coding agents — giving them context, writing clear prompts, and building persistent memory systems. Now, let’s look under the hood: what actually happens when you press Enter?
From simple autocomplete to autonomous digital engineers — a deep dive into the system architecture, context strategies, and core design patterns powering today’s elite AI coding tools.
This is an excerpt from the book Coding with Agents. Continue reading the full chapter in the book →