DataSmith agent beats Claude Code in data research tasks
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-08-19
Addressing the lack of research taste in general coding agents, the team built DataSmith to automate data research. It inspects failures, searches wider, and makes better research bets, beating Claude Code by 5.1 points on average.
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