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Does a team of coding agents beat one agent?

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A controlled trial on six real features found that a planner–coder–reviewer team of Codex agents passed 25.7% of hidden acceptance tests, against 56.8% for one agent alone at lower cost. The main cause was a lossy hand-off from planner to coder.

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