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Failure as a Process: An Anatomy of CLI Coding Agent Trajectories

Large language model (LLM) coding agents are increasingly deployed to autonomously perform software engineering tasks in terminal-based environments, making their reliability a growing concern. Existing empirical studies investigate why cod

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.09510v1 ↗
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