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Tested across 48 agent-generated implementations of the Knight-Leveson Launch Interceptor spec against 1,000,000 random inputs, majority voting over three-version units dropped failures roughly 3x, and 11,000+ N-version units showed zero observed failures (arXiv:2606.20158). The catch: common-mode failures persist where the spec is ambiguous, so voting doesn't save you from a bad spec, only from independent mistakes. For high-stakes generated code, running three agents and voting is a cheap, measurable reliability gain.
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arXiv 2607.08010 replaces the inference-time coding loop with a pipeline that collects execution traces, observes live backend schemas and values, synthesizes candidate tools, and repairs them against labeled cases. Runtime calls the compiled tool instead of re-deriving it. Th...
arXiv:2606.07889 names a failure mode where a coding agent holds information that should change its behavior, states that information out loud, and then acts against it anyway. The authors propose detecting this in execution trajectories as a pre-failure signal. For anyone run...
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