Think Longer, Act Worse? What M2A Teaches About Reasoning Agents
Think Longer, Act Worse? What M2A Teaches About Reasoning Agents A coding agent does not fail only because it cannot think. Sometimes it fails because it keeps thinking after it should inspect the repository. Sometimes it writes a plausible explanation before checking the relevant file. Sometimes it burns the context window by wandering through hypotheses, each one almost reasonable, none of them decisive. The result is not stupidity in the familiar sense. It is a coordination failure: the model does not know when to reason, when to call a tool, when to absorb feedback, and when to edit. ...