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Another piece from the Sasha Rush conversation, this time on rewards for coding RL. He said Cursor uses a mix. Some rewards look at the tool calls themselves, some only at the final output. Everything end-to-end, no process rewards guessing what happens in the middle. I agree with him... show more
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