New Paper: Coding Agents Find Different Bugs Than Maintainers Fix
OfirPress · x · 2026-10-29
Two researchers discovered a week before the ICLR deadline they were working on adjacent topics: SWE-sweep and a new paper showing frontier coding agents report fewer than 20% of the bugs human maintainers historically fixed—yet most of the many other bugs they report are technically valid.
Key takeaway: there is a clear distribution mismatch between agent and human bug reports. Aligning agent bug-finding with what maintainers actually fix is framed as the next important step for making coding agents more useful.
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