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Many Arms, Fewer Bugs: Why Coding Agents Need to Stop Working Alone

Opening — Why this matters now For all the breathless demos, AI coding agents still collapse embarrassingly often when faced with real software engineering: large repositories, ambiguous issues, long horizons, and no hand-holding. Benchmarks like SWE-bench-Live have made this painfully explicit. Models that look heroic on curated tasks suddenly forget how to navigate a codebase without spiraling into context soup. ...

December 31, 2025 · 4 min · Zelina