Agent-written code looks worse but ships with fewer bugs than human builds, devs say
intellectronica · x · 2026-09-29
Practitioners observe that agent-built features ship with fewer bugs and "just work," while human-driven builds tend to be myopic. The explanation: humans optimize for readability and over-simplify, while agents optimize for correctness—which often requires complex, inelegant code.
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