First Look at Verdent, an Autonomous Coding Agent From China

I got onto the recent early access beta for Verdent, the new AI coding tool from TikTok’s former head of algorithms. Described as “an autonomous coding agent that takes care of the boring parts,” there are two flavors: Verdent for VS Code and Verdent Deck. This review looks at the second one, as it is effectively an app interpretation of an agentic Command Line Interface (CLI).

As is common in my reviews, I’ll test it with my Rails project. But I’m not testing the abilities of the LLM engine(s), per se — I’m looking at how the…