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Notes on code quality, static analysis, and keeping AI-generated codebases maintainable.
13 of 14 Models Write Messier Code Than the Human Who Fixed the Same Bug
We scored 14 SWE-bench submissions for maintainability against the commit a human wrote to fix the same bug. Thirteen of the fourteen left the code messier.
What Your Coding Agent Can't See
AI agents score perfectly on the code quality metrics they can perceive, and badly on the ones they can't. The fix isn't better prompting — it's giving them a structural feedback loop.