arXiv Computation and Language By Marianne Menglin Liu, Rongguang Wang, Zheng Wang, Yewen Wang, Leonid Boytsov, Tao Sheng, Sujith Ravi, Dan Roth

Can LLM Agents Be Forward-Deployed Engineers? Requirement Discovery and Delivery for Enterprise Text-to-SQL

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The paper investigates whether large language model (LLM) coding agents can function as forward‑deployed engineer (FDE) agents by discovering customer requirements and executing deployment plans in a real enterprise text‑to‑SQL scenario. In a simulated engagement, agents must uncover acceptance criteria, data permissions, and hardware constraints before planning and delivering a post‑training recipe. Across 15 models, the best agents uncovered over 80% of hidden requirements, yet only 25% of runs met all acceptance criteria, revealing bottlenecks in discovery, execution reliability, compute usage, and benchmark relevance.

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