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The dogmatism on both ends of this argument grows tiresome.


Indeed. And so is reading “x is the real thing. Real y, real z.” Plus all the other filler crap.

If you can command a model, you can tell it to write without fluff.

The amount of effort to ask an LLM to do work is massively lower than the effort for a human to review it.


I don't find this problem any different than with human writers. Agents are verbose, sure, but I mostly find them providing far more useful information (in far less time) than your average (P80, really) SWE.


  def my_swe_percentile(best_agent_swe_percentile):
      return min(100, best_agent_swe_percentile * 1.25)



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