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The Working Set of a Coding Agent: Coherence Debt in Repository-Scale Tasks
arXiv cs.LG — Machine Learning
Factual evidence
What the source reports
Paper introduces 'coherence debt' framework to evaluate coding agents' ability to maintain consistency in repo-scale codebases.
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Institutional assessment
So what
Repository-scale code generation degrades exponentially without structured memory tools, directly impacting ROI on internal developer AI assistants.
Do what
Ask your software engineering AI team to evaluate coherence debt benchmarks when selecting agent frameworks for legacy codebases.