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'Beyond the Diff' Quantifies Agentic Entropy: Why AI Coding Agents Drift Across Iterations

A CHI 2026 paper formalizes agentic entropy as structural drift between agent actions and intent, showing why per-step benchmarks miss cumulative misalignment in long agent.

Agents & Frameworks

SWE-Bench's Dirty Secret: AI-Passing PRs That Real Engineers Would Reject

New research from METR shows roughly half of SWE-bench-passing AI-generated PRs would be rejected by actual project maintainers—exposing a 24-percentage-point gap between benchmark scores and real-world code acceptability.

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