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Ask HN: How many runs before you trust a coding agent's result?

Hacker News user Marvin_RunAI posted an Ask HN thread titled "How many runs before you trust a coding agent's result?" that had drawn 1 point and 1 comment roughly 37 minutes after posting. The question asks the Hacker News community how many repeated executions of a coding agent are needed before users trust its output.

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