The bottleneck in agentic coding is not model intelligence but context management and architectural determinism. The LLM is a nondeterministic kernel wrapped in a deterministic runtime; the orchestrator (spec, build profile, verification surface) is that runtime. When the loop feels broken, the fix lives in the runtime — sharper prompt spec, harder verification, better lesson capture — not in swapping agents. The more deterministic the runtime, the more value the nondeterministic kernel can deliver.
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