Is the future of coding agents JEPA? [D]

I heard Yann LeCun explain JEPA (Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture) recently and I started thinking about using it for coding agents. Most coding agents today work by throwing a huge amount of text into a frontier LLM and asking it to generate the next patch. That is astonishingly useful, but it also feels architecturally wrong. A repo is not just a bag of tokens. A failing test is not just text. Software has state. An edit is an action.