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AI Coding Agents
Alibaba's Qoder bets coding agents will be won on the harness, not the model
Alibaba Cloud's Qoder Agent Desktop is an argument as much as a product: coding agents will be won on the harness, not the model. Tasks now replace files as the unit of work, and Alibaba points to internal numbers showing a 40% cut in agent input tokens. No independent verification has been published yet.
2026-09-15