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Why Autonomous Coding Agents Still Require Deterministic Scaffolding

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The Industry Illusion: "Smarter Models Need Less Engineering" A prevailing assumption in the autonomous agent ecosystem is that as foundation models scale, external scaffolding becomes obsolete. The hypothesis suggests that a sufficiently capable frontier model can autonomously navigate error recov…

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  1. 2026-10-17 06:24 · DEV Community — AI
    Why Autonomous Coding Agents Still Require Deterministic Scaffolding

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