Comment by troupo

> It's almost entirely based on what the agent learned about the current state of your codebase and environment.

Agents don't learn. They rebuild a lossy context about your codebase from scratch every time, and then produce lossy output based on that context.

> You write a 1000 token prompt describing what you want, and the agent pulls in 10k tokens of system prompt

And at this point its context is so polluted so it doesn't matter