Evidence coding agents benefit from stable code identifiers.
"none of these tools give the model a stable, verifiable identifier for the lines it wants to change without wasting tremendous amounts of context and depending on perfect recall"
via @marianoguerra.org
blog.can.ac/2026/02/12/t...
“They will see further than anyone before, standing on the shoulders of giant machines”
open.substack.com/pub/davidbes...
If humans won't use structure editors, maybe AIs will.
"We propose reframing the codebase as a structured action space where agents operate on named AST entities rather than text spans."
arxiv.org/html/2604.05...