claudine

of code needed to read/write files and execute commands and a very simple loop where it interacts with claude via a simple REST API. You can read through the code base (a couple of hundred lines of Kotlin) in a few minutes and get a feel for what it does. We had some fun trying to get the tool to improve itself during the meetup. It worked pretty well. Probably, the most complex thing of the whole code base is the system prompt used to orchestrate the whole thing. That looks like some thought went into it and there are probably a few gotchas that are yet to be addressed. But even that is doable. A determined person could probably replicate what this does in a day or so from scratch. Probably a lot faster if you use one of these tools to build the next one. This isn't rocket science. I'm guessing we'll be seeing a lot of tools like this in the next few months. It will be interesting to see what refinements people come up with. I think most of the innovation is going to be in giving these agents better/smarter tools to work with. For example, there's a lot of stuff encapsulated in IDEs that it probably a lot easier to use than trying to do the same thing with random cli commands.