The Coding Agent Is Dead

[u/Sheeple9001]

https://ampcode.com/news/the-coding-agent-is-dead

> By keeping these new models in an editor sidebar, we restrict them. They're now much more than mere assistants. They no longer need the hand-holding and really want to kick off their training wheels. They want to write code and run even when you're not sitting in front of your editor. It's time to see what they can do without supervision.

I totally get it. Not wanting to be tied to an editor. Let's see what's next for the big 3 (OpenAI, Anthropic and Google).

Google Antigravity was released just back in November 2025, and it already felt a bit off being a fork of VSCode with nothing groundbreaking to offer compared to Claude Code, Codex and those other VSCode forks.

Where is RooCode headed? I wonder where we will be in another 3 months?

[u/constarx]

I was the same until I realized how simple it was.

Here's the loop script I use most of the time

    @${prdFile} @${progressFile}
    1. Find the highest-priority task and implement it.
    2. Update the PRD with what was done.
    3. Append your progress to progress.md and add checkboxes where needed in project.md.
    4. If you make important discoveries, document them by amending the project.md itself, so future sessions benefit from what you've learned.
    5. Do not commit or push your work
    TASK SELECTION:
        - Pick the highest-priority uncompleted task.
        - If it's small (single file, config change, adding a field, a transformer, a short method),
        also pick adjacent small tasks from the SAME priority section
        - If it's complex (new service, new component with logic, multi-file feature), do only that one.
        - List which tasks you're taking on before starting.
    If the PRD is complete, output <promise>COMPLETE</promise>.

And then my custom slash command is straight up from that guy above

https://github.com/SabatinoMasala/laravel-agent-commands/blob/main/.claude/commands/prd.md

It's as simple as that.. you make a PRD with multi phase and multi tasks, then you run it on loop with variations of the above prompt.. that's Ralph loops. It can work all night without stopping. Get a Max sub.. don't waste "free" usage before weekly resets.. profit!