The Singularity as it Happened · Book 6 · Bill Cox
The Art of Building AI Coding Agents: A Human Companion
Understand the agent, not just its output
The executable codebook teaches an AI to build Ensemble. This companion explains the design to a human reader: why the boundaries exist, how the pieces fit together, and what can go wrong when those boundaries blur.
You do not have to execute the original book or complete its graded exercises to read this companion. It follows the engineering from conversations and tool execution through streaming, persistence, memory, confinement, multiple agents, and goals.
Engineering judgment, not a recipe to follow blindly
The aim is to help you understand enough to judge an implementation, change its design, and take responsibility for the result. The explanations preserve the reasons behind the choices, including their limits and the mistakes that shaped them.
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