Coding assistants falter when long projects involve less technical users

SWE-Journey tests agents on evolving repository work and finds a large performance gap between simulated software architects and non-coders.

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Hexuan Deng · Yue Wang · Wenyu Jiang · Cheng Yang · Haolin Yang · Zhaohua Zhang · +10 more

Tencent Hy AI Data · Beijing Zhongguancun Academy

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The authors built long-horizon coding tasks through a weak-to-strong synthesis pipeline.

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Coding assistants pass over 75% of functionality tests with architect users but under 25% with non-coder users on long-horizon, multi-turn SWE-Journey tasks.

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