Coding Agents Fail at Search, Not Coding: 15 Papers Prove It

60% of coding agent time is spent searching, not coding. Bigger context windows make it worse. 15 papers from Anthropic, DeepMind, and Cognition explain why.

Tejas Bhakta
Tejas Bhakta
February 18, 202612 min read
Coding Agents Fail at Search, Not Coding: 15 Papers Prove It