Building an Autonomous AI Agent with Claude Code: A Non-Engineer's Architecture Guide (opens in new tab)

<p><strong>TL;DR:</strong> I built an AI agent called Noa using Claude as my engineering partner. I'm not an engineer. The architecture is simple on purpose: two Claude instances (one thinks, one builds), a JSON file for memory, and a single markdown file that acts as the agent's brain. Everything here is optimized for "can I actually debug this at 1am?" rather than elegance.</p> <p>I built a working AI agent. Not a tutorial project, not a hackathon demo. A system that does an actual job. Th...