AI/Coding/History/Phase/3 - Direct Agentic Coding
- At this stage, a developer would directly instruct the LLM on what to do, and it would conduct multiple steps to achieve that. AI Coding systems weren't that good at working autonomously for more than 30 sec to 1min at this stage.
- The crucial breakthrough at this stage was that both IDEs like CursorAI and CLIs like aider put an LLM in a loop with AI/LLM/Tools to edit files. This enabled models with smaller context windows to increase their accuracy by focusing on executing smaller changes and then iterating until a single logical set of edits were successfully applied.
- Sub-Phases
- CursorAI, IDE/Cline and others pioneered the ability to have customizable rules files which were loaded into the AI/Context. This enabled developers to save time by not having to re-type preferences or information related to specific technologies.