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What it Takes for Coding Agents to Complete Large Software Tasks | Factory.ai

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Models have become very good at problems with compact, stable criteria for success. Much of the past year's progress in...

Go back By Factory Research, Theo Luan - August 27, 2026 - 10 minute read Research Share Held to a standard of completion they wrote themselves, agents rebuilt complex programs to near-parity. Models have become very good at problems with compact, stable criteria for success. Much of the past year's progress in mathematics and constrained optimization falls into this category - machine-checked proofs of long-open Erdős problems, gold-medal performance at the IMO, new bounds on decades-old combinatorial problems. The search space can be enormous, but the result can ultimately be judged…

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