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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I would focus on planning, grounding breadth, and state management. Multi-file feature work fails when the agent cannot hold the dependency structure, product intent, and validation plan together across several edits.

That means better repo retrieval, clearer task decomposition, stronger workflow memory, and...

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