Architecture as Capability Equalizer for Coding Agents
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Arquimedes Canedo
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Arquimedes Canedo
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Terms in this piece · Glossary
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.
Why it matters
On frontier models the spec format barely matters; on weaker ones, writing it as OpenAPI or typed contracts recovers most of the capability gap — while mid-tier models can burn more tokenThe chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.Full definition → for worse code.
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