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# [Escaping Sunk-Cost Retry Loops in Coding Agents: Single-Session Retries vs. a Parallel Best-of-N Tournament (-67.2% Input Tokens)](https://tappers.hashnode.dev/e13-parallel-tournament?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

💡 AI Labo Benchmark Series — Experiment E13 (Parallel Worktrees & Best-of-N Selection) This post is part of our empirical benchmark series testing AI coding agent harness patterns inside network-isol

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