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Md Rashedul Hasan

Nebraska-based software engineering researcher who told The New Stack the framework's main value is reduced train-serve mismatch, while flagging reward design, evaluation fidelity and integration with orchestration, observability and safety controls as risks.

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Rashed Hasan

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Agent Lightning v1.0 hands the RL loop to the harness, and the trainer gets text, not tokens

Microsoft reports Qwen3.5-9B going from 41.8% to 56.4% on SWE-bench Verified using 6K examples. The load-bearing change is who owns the agent loop, and what the service boundary costs.

Publishers:thenewstack.io

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Adoption18
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