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How to Make Coding Agents Faster: Crabbox + 3 Fixes
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Your coding agent can spend more time waiting for tests and builds than writing code. As inference gets faster, tool calls can become a larger share of the wait. Speeding up that feedback loop means examining which checks run, how they run, and where they run. Crabbox, from Peter Steinberger and the OpenClaw team, keeps agents local while expensive work runs on other machines. In this episode, we share our experience offloading Electron tests with Crabbox, discuss the tradeoffs of selective...