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I benchmarked 14 AI coding agents on the same task — same model, wildly different results

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In my last post, benchmarking a small local LLM exposed a bug in my own harness — the "weak model" was partly my code. That raised the obvious next question: how much does the tool around the model matter, measured across many tools? So I ran 14 agent-type AI coding tools through the same task set,…

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  1. 2026-10-19 13:19 · DEV Community — AI
    I benchmarked 14 AI coding agents on the same task — same model, wildly different results

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