The Verification Horizon: No Silver Bullet for Coding Agent Rewards
arXiv:2606.26300v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A classical intuition holds that verifying a solution is easier than producing one. For today's coding agents, this intuition is being inverted: as foundation models develop stronger reasoning capabilities and engineering harnesses grow more sophisticated, generating complex candidate solutions is no longer difficult -- reliably verifying them has become the harder problem. Every verifier we can build is only a proxy for human intent, never the int
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Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence arXiv:2606.26300 (cs) [Submitted on 24 Jun 2026] Title:The Verification Horizon: No Silver Bullet for Coding Agent Rewards Authors:Binghai Wang, Chenlong Zhang, Dayiheng Liu, Jiajun Zhang, Jiawei Chen, Mouxiang Chen, Rongyao Fang, Siyuan Zhang, Xuwu Wang, Yuheng Jing, Zeyao Ma, Zeyu Cui View a PDF of the paper titled The Verification Horizon: No Silver Bullet for Coding Agent Rewards, by Binghai Wang and 11 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:A classical intuition holds that verifying a solution is easier than producing one.
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