alt Hacker NewsGoodharts law is invoked here with no discussion. Are we sure that optimizing for minimum LOC that pass all necessary tests produces sloppy code? And: What is sloppy code anyway? If we could define it, could we throw the definition into context and tell the LLM to avoid it?
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greenowl • yesterday at 7:32 PM
> What is sloppy code anyway?
Code that is overly and unnecessarily difficult and cumbersome for humans to work on.
But given the way humans work on code nowadays doesn't involve actually writing it themselves, there's no such thing as sloppy code anymore. Hooray!
> could we throw the definition into context and tell the LLM to avoid it?
Every IMPORTANT RULE WHICH MUST BE FOLLOWED STRICTLY to not to do something from my AGENTS.md and skills are violated without any hesitation from LLM. Glorified autocomplete doesn't work this way. Positive rules are more stable on this regard.