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Measuring the sloppiness of code

The author examines how LLMs, while generating formally correct code, often introduce unnecessary abstractions, duplicates, and poor structural decisions—a phenomenon termed 'code sloppiness.' Despite industry hype around end-to-end coding agents, the author finds a lack of quantitative metrics to measure and address this growing problem, especially as codebases balloon in size.

Source
Lobsters
Published
Sep 12, 2026 at 01:08 AM
Score
5.0 / 10