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Coding agents increasingly perform software tasks by themselves, choosing libraries, writing code, running it, and debugging errors. This creates a new challenge for library developers: software must now be designed so agents can use it effectively, not just so it works correctly and quickly. A benchmark focused on agent-driven tool use measures not just whether an agent completes a task correctly, but how much effort, tokens, and steps it takes to get there across different models, library versions, and tasks. Testing and documentation become directly tied together in agent-optimized development, since agents need discoverable, well-documented tools to work effectively.

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A new Cursor study reports that newer coding agents often retrieve known fixes instead of deriving them, inflating popular benchmark scores. Reward hacking means a model earns the reward without doing the intended work. Here the reward is a passing test. The intended work is deriving the bug fix. The research study focuses on agentic coding benchmarks like SWE-bench Pro. These suites draw tasks from real, already-fixed open-source bugs. Because each bug was fixed, the answer often exists onl
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