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Tag: Code-Generation
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Feb 2026
Code Writing Agents and Program Synthesis Teaching AI to Build Its Own Tools
How AI agents generate, execute, and refine code as a reasoning medium, from classical program synthesis to modern REPL-based agent loops and SWE-bench architectures