Danny Graviet(@dtgrav):We did research on whether full sandbox snapshots actually help coding agents recover from failed long-horizon tasks. > The surprising result was that on Terminal-Bench, retrying from scratch often worked better. > However, snapshots became much more interesting when progress lived outside Git, like databases and running services.

Danny Graviet

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Danny Graviet@dtgrav

2026.09.18 19:05

We did research on whether full sandbox snapshots actually help coding agents recover from failed long-horizon tasks. > The surprising result was that on Terminal-Bench, retrying from scratch often worked better. > However, snapshots became much more interesting when progress lived outside Git, like databases and running services.