Microsoft Paper: Code Understanding, Not Editing Volume, is the Real Agent Bottleneck

Microsoft researchers argue in a new paper that coding agents are bottlenecked by understanding code rather than the volume of edits. Their CABRA method generates synthetic coding tasks via call-graph transformations across four difficulty axes, evaluated with 6,840 runs on 8 LLMs and 6 agents.

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