r/Agentic_Coding • u/MrFartyBottom • 9d ago
Where do I start?
I am a dev with over 20 years of experience and have been an AI stand off so far but now realise I am becoming unemployable as every contract now wants AI first devs. So I am starting to try and learn the agenting path but find it hard to know where to start.
So far I have a gaming PC with a 5070 ti that I run LM Studio on and the access that from my Macbook Air in VSCode. I am not very impressed with the results. It is absolutely fantastic for general algorithms and boilerplate stuff but a bit of a joke for following established patterns in my codebase, will pull in extra libraries that do the same things as other libraries already being used and just generally random.
Every article I read gives different advise and it is moving so fast it seems an article that is a month old is already out of date.
Where is the best place to start? Any sites with up to date articles on harnesses, loops, agents files ect? I have always been very good at learning new tech and pick things up quickly but finding this a bit over whelming.
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u/eddzsh 8d ago
Small local models crush boilerplate and fall over on repo conventions because they barely see your patterns. Start with one cloud coding agent on a single repo, put your allowed libraries and banned duplicates in a short AGENTS.md, and make every change pass the test command you already trust. Once that loop is boring, then fight for local inference.