Summary
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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What happened
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...
Why it matters
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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Public Interest 26
Category OPEN SOURCE
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Curiosity Score 52
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