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Coding Agents: Moving From "Bash Mimics" to "AST Manipulators"
In the last post, we killed the "Tool Abstraction" layer. By replacing 50 brittle JSON-RPC wrappers with a single eeva process (Elixir on the BEAM).
Here is how we moved our agent from text-based hacking to actual AST-aware refactoring.
The Problem: The "Diff" Illusion
Standard agents "edit" files by outputting search blocks:
Plaintext
<<<< SEARCH
def hello_world, do: "hi"
==== REPLACE
def hello_world, do: "hello elixir"
>>>>
This is f...
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