Dev: Coding agents still blocked by verbosity and lack of true long-context
A_K_Nain · x · 2026-10-07
Engineer AKNain argues two core blockers keep coding agents from becoming the default way to do all work:
- Verbosity: agents are verbose and token-hungry, slowing real workflows
- No true long-context: they struggle to sustain reasoning across large codebases and long tasks
A practitioner's take on the real-world bottlenecks behind the benchmarks.
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