alt Hacker Newslol 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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oofbey • yesterday at 4:27 PM
Oh I’ve had agents remove tests plenty of times. Or cripple the tests so they pass but are useless - more common and harder to prompt against.
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> 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