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PublishedNovember 14, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Termination Lag: Coding Agents Solve Early but Stop Late
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arXiv:2611.14960v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents can solve a task well before they stop working on it. We characterize \emph{termination lag}--the number of steps between an agent's first correct patch and the end of its run--across five models, two agent frameworks, and three SWE-bench
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