Researcher calls on RL teams to add refactoring and deletion tasks to agent training
kuza55 · x · 2026-09-06
Practitioner kinglycrow urges lab RL teams to introduce refactoring and deletion tasks, specifically paying someone to produce exercises around abstraction and centralization. The argument: current RL training over-indexes on writing new code from scratch, neglecting cleanup, consolidation, and dead-code removal skills that real-world engineering agents need.
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