Frontier coding agents lack self-knowledge, leading to bloated codebases
MinqiJiang · x · 2026-08-31
MinqiJiang observes that frontier coding agents remain badly calibrated on their knowledge limits. They resort to a spray-and-pray strategy, likely incentivized by RL training tasks. This strong bias towards recall over precision explains why AI-generated codebases tend to become so bloated.
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