Coding agents have verbal tics: everything is a 'contract' or a 'workload'
keunwoochoi · x · 2026-09-12
Keunwoo Choi jokes about coding agents' verbal tics: every decision in his codebase is apparently a 'contract', and every task a 'workload' — wondering if it's because we call them 'agents'. A relatable observation about the templated language LLM coding assistants produce.
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