The Code LogA personal software engineering knowledge hub for curated notes and synthesized insights from trusted sources and hands-on learning.https://www.thecodelog.com/en-usAI Dictionary: Agents, Harnesses, and Toolshttps://www.thecodelog.com/log/ai-dictionary-agents/https://www.thecodelog.com/log/ai-dictionary-agents/The parts of a coding agent and the action loop connecting a model to its environment.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Dictionary: Context, Memory, and Handoffshttps://www.thecodelog.com/log/ai-dictionary-context/https://www.thecodelog.com/log/ai-dictionary-context/How agents use limited active context and preserve useful information across compaction, resets, and handoffs.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Dictionary: Design and Project Guidancehttps://www.thecodelog.com/log/ai-dictionary-design/https://www.thecodelog.com/log/ai-dictionary-design/How discovery, specifications, prototypes, and discoverable project instructions help people and agents work from shared requirements.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Dictionary: Knowledge, Grounding, and Evidencehttps://www.thecodelog.com/log/ai-dictionary-knowledge/https://www.thecodelog.com/log/ai-dictionary-knowledge/Where model answers draw their information from, how retrieval supplies evidence, and why plausible claims need verification.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Dictionary: How Models Generate Languagehttps://www.thecodelog.com/log/ai-dictionary-models/https://www.thecodelog.com/log/ai-dictionary-models/The foundations of language models: training, inference, tokens, reasoning effort, and how generated responses can vary.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Dictionaryhttps://www.thecodelog.com/log/ai-dictionary-overview/https://www.thecodelog.com/log/ai-dictionary-overview/Decode the language of AI development. Simple explanations for the ideas changing how software gets built.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Dictionary: Requests, Tokens, and Cachinghttps://www.thecodelog.com/log/ai-dictionary-requests/https://www.thecodelog.com/log/ai-dictionary-requests/How providers process requests, account for token usage, reuse prompt prefixes, and manage conversation state.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Dictionary: Safety, Trust, and Permissionshttps://www.thecodelog.com/log/ai-dictionary-safety/https://www.thecodelog.com/log/ai-dictionary-safety/How trust boundaries, approvals, and sandbox controls limit what an agent can do with untrusted input.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Dictionary: Workflows, Verification, and Reviewhttps://www.thecodelog.com/log/ai-dictionary-workflows/https://www.thecodelog.com/log/ai-dictionary-workflows/How human involvement, unattended work, checks, evaluations, and review fit into agent-driven software delivery.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT