Reposted by Martin Singh-Blom
This week's #PaperILike is "Latent Programming Horizons in Coding Agents" (Silva et al., 2026).
Now seems like a good time to better understand what coding agents are doing. Here's a nice example of the kind of analysis one can do.
PDF: arxiv.org/abs/2607.05188
arxiv.org
Latent Programming Horizons in Coding Agents
A coding agent solving a software-engineering task spends dozens of steps reasoning, editing code, and running tests, yet little is known about what the underlying language model internally represents...