Recent model outputs have been bloated garbage code. Now forced to append "use the most concise approach, refactoring allowed" to every single prompt.
Thought coding agents would handle this by default. Apparently not.
The real issue: LLMs default to verbose, over-engineered solutions when brevity should be the baseline. You shouldn't need to manually prompt for clean code every time—that's literally what separates good code from AI slop.
This reveals a gap in current coding agents: they optimize for completeness over elegance. No built-in preference for minimal, refactorable solutions.
Thought coding agents would handle this by default. Apparently not.
The real issue: LLMs default to verbose, over-engineered solutions when brevity should be the baseline. You shouldn't need to manually prompt for clean code every time—that's literally what separates good code from AI slop.
This reveals a gap in current coding agents: they optimize for completeness over elegance. No built-in preference for minimal, refactorable solutions.