Clean Up Bad Code First: A Trick to Boost AI Coding
davidmanheim · x · 2026-07-19
Security expert Thomas Dullien (@halvarflake) offers an interesting perspective: AI models often struggle with poor-quality code because bad context directly degrades the quality of model outputs. Therefore, before assigning complex tasks to the model, asking it to clean up and standardize the existing code to the highest standard could significantly improve final task performance.
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