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AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software · A study reported by Ars Technica: the gains from coding agents are "absorbed" by human review. arstechnica.com/​ai/​2026/​10/​…

500+ Billion Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile A First-Person Shooter · The account of a very long job handed to agents: recovering the code of a shooter game from the finished program, more than 500 billion tokens (the pieces of words models work with) later, between 600 and 700 billion according to the author. The game launched, but the code was wrong: each function had to be compared, byte by byte, with the original. momo5502.com/​posts/​…

VEPA: Verified Evolving Formal Policy for Lifelong LLM Agent Guardrails · Guardrails that, before any irreversible action by an agent, return an allow or deny decision that can be inspected and does not vary, instead of relying on the model's judgment. Read it alongside MXC: the box limits the agent, the rule decides what gets through. arxiv.org/​abs/​2610.12813