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  "id": 14900,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27146",
  "title": "MindForge: Teaching Small Language Models Whole-Life-Cycle Software Engineering via Source-Free Program Synthesis",
  "summary": "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 ProgramBench fully resolve fewer than 1% of tasks. One obstacle is the lack of scalable training environments for this from-scratch setting, spanning the whole software engineering life cycle, as existing environment-construc",
  "authors": "Yihao Chen, Shi Chang, Khaled Chawa, Feng Lin, Boyuan Chen, Shaowei Wang",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy,environment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-28T20:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-31T05:10:57.675Z",
  "source_slug": "hf-daily",
  "source_name": "HuggingFace Daily Papers",
  "source_homepage": "https://huggingface.co/papers",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14900",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27146",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
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