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Fancy harnesses make coding agents more expensive but not better, study finds

A controlled study shows that switching between coding-agent harnesses like Claude Code, OpenCode, or mini-SWE-agent barely moves pass rates more than rerunning the same setup. Cost per task, however, can triple, driven mainly by the system prompt that gets resent with every step. The article Fancy…

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  1. 2026-10-24 09:21 · The Decoder
    Fancy harnesses make coding agents more expensive but not better, study finds

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