An Agent in 100 Lines of Lisp
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technical depth 7
novelty 6
actionability 8
community 4
strategic 5
personal 9
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Agent implementation in 100 lines of Lisp directly matches AI agent interest and is highly actionable.
Summary
An AI agent loop can be implemented in 8 lines of Common Lisp using recursion, with a full ~100-line agent that uses Lisp's homoiconicity to let the model execute arbitrary code via `eval` as its only tool. The agent runs on SBCL, OpenRouter, and two libraries (dexador, shasht), proving that agent frameworks often obscure the simplicity of the core loop.