coding

Definition

In most current papers this means programming — writing and editing source code, as in "coding agent" or "coding benchmark". The older information-theoretic sense survives in fixed phrases like sparse coding and predictive coding, where it means encoding data into some representation. The neighbouring words almost always disambiguate: a coding assistant writes software, while a coding scheme compresses signals.

Explainers using this term

• Paper walkthrough: RealSWE — re-measuring coding agents when the request is just "fix it"RealSWE: A Compositional Evaluation of Coding Agents under Realistic User Requests
• Paper Walkthrough: Code World Model — Putting a Coding Agent in Charge of the WorldCode World Model: Coding Agent as World Brain
• Probabilistic Data Structures — Counting Without CountingSpace/Time Trade-offs in Hash Coding with Allowable Errors (Bloom