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Benchmarking Coding Agents on New vs Legacy Codebases (Denys Linkov (Wisedocs))
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Linkov audits a six-month, ten-repository medical-claims refactor to ask whether agents could have done it. The same task took three hours and ten major mistakes with o3, while Opus 4.8 essentially got it in one pass; handed the whole job, GPT 5.5 declared it done in about ten minutes with the actual models missing.
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Aug 11, 2026 · in the sections
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