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Technology & AIJul 29, 2026

MindForge: Teaching Small Language Models Whole-Life-Cycle Software Engineering via Source-Free Program Synthesis

Coding agents have made substantial progress on software engineering tasks that modify existing codebases, including bug fixing and feature implementation.

Coding agents have made substantial progress on software engineering tasks that modify existing codebases, including bug fixing and feature implementation. However, constructing a complete program from scratch remains a major challenge: even the frontier models evaluated on…

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