Microsoft Paper Shows Coding Agents Are Strong Prompt Optimizers

Microsoft's new paper introduces CASD, which lets coding agents distill optimized prompts from their own run logs, beating baselines on 3 of 4 benchmarks with an average gain of 16.6 points for only $1.60.

2026-10-02 ~ 2026-10-02 · 2 related posts

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