This is obviously just a response to https://www.anthropic.com/research/redesigning-source-contro.... Probably no one in the chain of writing this even thought about your question.

Instead of keeping it simple, they decided to go stupid.

Because this kind of growth is how they get to RSI.

> Technical details aside, this volume is ridiculous. How on earth do they see this kind of "growth" as an asset and not a liability?

That coding volume is a liability only for human engineers, with their limited memory, short attention span, tiredness, and quirky coding preferences. LLMs don't have any of those problems.