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maddmann ◴[] No.46232972[source]
lol 5000 tests. Agentic code tools have a significant bias to add versus remove/condense. This leads to a lot of bloat and orphaned code. Definitely something that still needs to be solved for by agentic tools.
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1. nosianu ◴[] No.46233663[source]
> Agentic code tools have a significant bias to add versus remove/condense.

Your point stands uncontested by me, but I just wanted to mention that humans have that bias too.

Random link (has the Nature study link): https://blog.benchsci.com/this-newly-proven-human-bias-cause...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_bias

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2. maddmann ◴[] No.46235708[source]
Great point, interesting how agents somehow pick up the same bias.