normative claim
The speaker argues that coding agents should launch tools in advance when the code makes the required execution predictable, because tools are often sequential or involve waiting.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“thing is when the model is uh writing its code or like even as like after it finishes writing code a lot of tools tend to be like sequential or like you have to wait on them so you should just launch them in advance like if if you're able to compile this code you can probably figure out like even though it's like kind of variables and stuff like you can figure out like”1:20:29Report a misattribution
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