Almost all the coding agents are unable to work more than a few mins without needing a human in the loop. You pretty much babysit them even in an agentic mode.<p>Add in long context codebases, dependency graphs and you do more work being frustated with their output rather than enabled with it. The first 80% of boilerplate - is like a template they absolutely steam through - but work on the 20% that matters and they fail miserably.<p>Things that have worked to bring in better context
- Project spec plans
- Architecture for the whole project
- Detailed design breakdown for the modules
- TODO for tracking implementation
- and a scratch implementation doc<p>This is the hierarchy of representations that brings an agent upto speed even as it muscles through the individual bits.<p>How do you deal with long-chunk codebases - and what's been the longest / most detailed project you have used an agent on?