Coding Agents: Moving From "Bash Mimics" to "AST Manipulators" (opens in new tab)

In the last post, we killed the "Tool Abstraction" layer. By replacing 50 brittle JSON-RPC wrappers with a single eeva process (Elixir on the BEAM). Here is how we moved our agent from text-based hacking to actual AST-aware refactoring. The Problem: The "Diff" Illusion Standard agents "edit" files by outputting search blocks: Plaintext >>> This is fundamentally broken. It relies on the model perfectly hall...