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Prompt-Induced Waste in Coding Agents: Reasoning, Effort, Harness Design, and End-to-End Cost
A study argues that coding-agent efficiency depends on the whole workflow.
Why it matters: Cost per successful task can reveal tradeoffs that raw token use alone misses in coding-agent workflows.
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