arXiv: Think Anywhere in Code Generation — Reasoning Beyond Upfront Chain-of-Thought for Coding Agents
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Jiang, Zhang, and Li challenge the dominant 'upfront thinking' paradigm in reasoning LLMs for code generation, where all reasoning occurs before the final answer. Their 'Think Anywhere' approach distributes reasoning throughout the code generation process, interleaving analysis with output at any point. This is directly relevant to coding agent architectures (Devin, Claude Code, Cursor) where complex multi-file edits require reasoning about dependencies mid-generation rather than planning everything upfront.