Anthropic wants to produce the best coding agent possible and doesn’t care (is even incentivized) about high costs. Other harnesses have to make trade offs between performance and cost.

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goda90 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Given they're incentivized to increase token use, what guarantees that higher token use improves the effectiveness of the agent and isn't just artificial padding?

	▲	slopinthebag 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well, nothing really. But I assume there can be some benefits to modifying context. For example, updating file contents or marking them as modified, summarization, injecting additional information, removing irrelevant tool call results, etc.

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bpye 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Is there evidence that it is actually a better agent though?

	▲	slopinthebag 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There’s evidence it’s a worse agent actually. I’m just saying in theory.