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Why Coding Agents Fail in the Outer Loop

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Alibaba's DreamX team and researchers from UNSW published LoopArena on arXiv yesterday (2608.28281). The benchmark evaluates how well language models act as runtime controllers for long-running coding agents. Most multi-step agent frameworks have quietly moved away from single-prompt execution. Whe…

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  1. 2026-08-31 16:42 · DEV Community — AI
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