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A coding-agent score is conditional on its tasks, harness, budget, environment, oracle, and date; useful evaluation preserves those conditions and measures operational value.
Inference can be cheap while accepted software remains expensive; the correct denominator is valuable, reviewed change—not tokens, diffs, or agent hours.
The decisive variable is not how much code agents can emit, but whether organizations can specify, verify, trace, and authorize machine-produced changes at comparable speed.