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slopinthebagtoday at 6:55 PM2 repliesview on HN

Anthropic wants to produce the best coding agent possible and doesn’t care (is even incentivized) about high costs. Other harnesses have to make trade offs between performance and cost.


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goda90today at 6:59 PM

Given they're incentivized to increase token use, what guarantees that higher token use improves the effectiveness of the agent and isn't just artificial padding?

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bpyetoday at 7:01 PM

Is there evidence that it is actually a better agent though?

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