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Coding Agents Can Solve the Task — But How Much Work Did They Waste?

Real repositories, seeded agent decisions: what 50,400 runs show about wasted turns, patch churn, and which harness rules help The post Coding Agents Can Solve the Task — But How Much Work Did They Waste? appeared first on Towards Data Science.

By Emmimal P AlexanderTowards Data Science
Coding Agents Can Solve the Task — But How Much Work Did They Waste?

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Originally published by Towards Data Science on Oct 13, 2026.

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