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The phenomenon in which an Agent falls into a dead loop of repeatedly attempting to solve the same problem in the same way is called a repetitive failure loop, and is one of the primary reliability bottlenecks of current Coding Agents
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10/12/2026
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Valid until: 1/10/2027
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