His phone agent edits code live through a REPL and keeps the tests running

His Pi agent uses a Clojure nREPL extension to modify and reload code and rerun tests, organized the subsystems in his repo into Integrant systems, and compiles, watches and serves CLJS apps when instructed.

How it works

His agent uses a live REPL extension to modify and reload code and rerun tests
Organized the subsystems in his repo into a component framework
Compiles and watches continuously

Why it’s worth knowing

Live reload plus tests is the tightest loop coding has.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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