LLMs inherit humanity's bureaucratic instinct: why your codebase fills with nonsense rules
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-11-04
Stewart Alsop III offers an observation: LLMs were trained on humans, and humans facing an obstacle overwhelmingly default to erecting a static rule that inconveniences everyone — i.e., bureaucracy. Unless you apply deliberate care and review, your AI-assisted codebase will end up littered with nonsensical rules.
A sharp explanation for the "rule bloat" pattern in AI coding agents.
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