The Comparison That Relocates the Cause
Two kinds of tool run under one protocol, one comes out ahead, and the result is read as news about where capability lives. The ranking itself is where the cause quietly moves.
The source is a recent study, "How Much of a Harness Does a Strong Agent Need for Autonomous ML Engineering?" It holds the model, the hardware and the wall-clock budget fixed, and finds that elaborate agent harnesses (multi-agent orchestration, retrieval, search trees) bring no significant gain over a minimal coding session with read, write and shell commands. That result is kept: inside its pairing of a strong…
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