Paper: general coding agents beat purpose-built data agents by up to 37 points
RishiBommasani · x · 2026-09-09
A new paper co-authored by Ion Stoica reviews two years of data agent evolution: general coding agents now significantly outperform hand-designed data agents by up to 37 points with 4× fewer turns. The authors break down which systems research problems remain for building the next frontier of data agents as better models eat the stack.
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