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BOBA paper: coding agents score 95% on single requests but 51% on 20-step repo chains

According to a post on X by @kbhaskar_95, which summarizes Amazon's BOBA paper by Cuadron and Gupta, ten coding agents average about 95% on isolated requests. On 20-step chains of requests on a repository, only 51% pass every hidden test with no feedback. A bare "verification failed" message plus one repair raises that to about 59%. The post notes that the specifications are model-written and not yet human-reviewed.

Source: Scobleizer News Pulse (X) · x.com Found via Robert Scoble’s Scobleizer News Pulse · a post on X, not independently verified Published 2026-11-05T17:33:00+00:00 Detected 2026-11-06T02:27:25+00:00
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According to a post on X by @kbhaskar_95, which summarizes Amazon's BOBA paper by Cuadron and Gupta, ten coding agents average about 95% on isolated requests. On 20-step chains of requests on a repository, only 51% pass every hidden test with no feedback. A bare "verification failed" message plus one repair raises that to about 59%. The post notes that the specifications are model-written and not yet human-reviewed.

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Summarizing Amazon's BOBA paper (Cuadron, Gupta), the post says ten coding agents average about 95% on isolated requests, but only 51% of 20-step chains on a repo pass every hidden test with no feedback; a bare "verification failed" plus one repair lifts that to about 59%. Specs are model-written and not yet...

The gap suggests that strong scores on single tasks may not carry over to long, multi-step coding work in real codebases, which matters for teams considering agents for repository maintenance. Because the specs are model-written and not yet human-reviewed, the results should be treated as provisional. Watch for the full paper and any human review of the specifications.

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