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Sam Yang

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The Free-Tier Fallacy: Five Myths About Coding Agents, Debunked with a Token Budget

The Free-Tier Fallacy: Five Myths About Coding Agents, Debunked with a Token Budget

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The Flaky Test That Only Failed After the Model Swap: A Debugging Retrospective

The Flaky Test That Only Failed After the Model Swap: A Debugging Retrospective

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The Restart That Ate the Refactor: A Cold-Start Postmortem for Coding Agents

The Restart That Ate the Refactor: A Cold-Start Postmortem for Coding Agents

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The Patch That Passed Review and Broke the Build: A Debugging Retrospective

The Patch That Passed Review and Broke the Build: A Debugging Retrospective

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The Runaway Diff: A Token-Budget Postmortem for Coding Agents

The Runaway Diff: A Token-Budget Postmortem for Coding Agents

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The Vanished Constraint: Debugging a Coding Agent That Forgot Its Own Decision

The Vanished Constraint: Debugging a Coding Agent That Forgot Its Own Decision

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MiniMax H3 Is Trending: Run a Cost-Aware Shadow Test Before You Switch

MiniMax H3 Is Trending: Run a Cost-Aware Shadow Test Before You Switch

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The Empty Diff Audit: A Reproducible Check for Coding Agent Patches

The Empty Diff Audit: A Reproducible Check for Coding Agent Patches

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Canaries, Not Faith: Auditing Where Your Coding Agent Actually Writes

Canaries, Not Faith: Auditing Where Your Coding Agent Actually Writes

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A Reproducible Prompt Regression Harness You Can Run on Free Tiers

A Reproducible Prompt Regression Harness You Can Run on Free Tiers

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