The agent succeeds on toy tasks and struggles with multi-file feature work. How would you improve it?

Instruction: Describe how you would strengthen a coding agent on broader engineering tasks.

Context: Tests how the candidate diagnoses the problem, chooses the safest next step, and reasons through recovery. Describe how you would strengthen a coding agent on broader engineering tasks.

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That pattern usually means the agent can code but cannot manage scope. I would work on planning, grounding, and decomposition...

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