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SpecPath found 35 of 100 passing implementations broke when only the revision path changed, with aggregate accuracy looking identical across paths. Build your eval set from real multi-turn clarification threads with amendments and reversals. Path sensitivity is invisible to standard benchmarking and will bite you in production, where every requirement arrives sideways.
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SpecPath (arXiv 2608.09799) holds repository, final contract, verifier, agent system, and execution budget constant, varying only the revision history by which a spec became final. Same end state, different path there. Thirty-five percent failed on at least one contract-equiva...
SpecFirst splits the loop in two: a spec agent probes the binary and fuses observations with documentation into a structured specification, then a separate synthesis agent codes against that fixed reference. Test pass rates rose 6.9-21.3% and binary exploration coverage 9.4-18...
RAGAS-style evaluation checks correctness against a frozen snapshot, which means routine document updates and corrections can silently break production without moving a dashboard. This ASE 2026 paper defines 11 mutation operators perturbing at both the pre-chunk index level an...
CodeGrep found BM25 at 0.375 precision actively degrades agent performance, Jina at 0.445 is neutral, and only 0.677 helps. Below roughly 0.45 precision you're paying tokens to make the agent worse. Test on your own repo before you assume retrieval is free upside.
arXiv 2607.08124 argues an agent's behavior is set as much by its harness (the program that builds context, invokes tools, verifies intermediate results, recovers from failure) as by the model. Current practice optimizes the harness on development data then freezes it at deplo...
Factory shipped into beta September 8 and took Product Hunt's top slot September 9 with 468 upvotes. The post gives audited counts: agents authored 17.0% of merged PRs (277 of 1,627) and closed 28.5% of issues (222 of 778), against a headline claim of 25-35% and 50-60%. The ch...
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