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A new arXiv paper presents the first large-scale empirical study of CLI coding-agent failure trajectories, treating failure as a temporal process rather than a final outcome. The study introduces a process-oriented framework to analyze how failures emerge, evolve, and become unrecoverable in LLM-based coding agents.
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