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Over-Defense in Coding Agents Begins at Silent Forks

Hanjun Luo et al.
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Language models behind coding agents are post-trained with outcome rewards, and recent methods concentrate credit on the turns that decide the outcome. We find that defensive actions beyond what a task requires escape both. They begin at silent forks, the turns where every next action leads to the s
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