Swe-Bench Failures: When Coding Agents Spiral Into 693 Lines of Hallucinations
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The article discusses how coding agents can spiral into generating large amounts of irrelevant code, and the discussion touches on whether future AI models like GPT-5 might mitigate this issue.
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egillie
4 months ago
Is this because GPT-5 hallucinates less in general?
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