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I can’t help but think the effective outcome of using this is gonna be a ton of language quirk usage, mass functional chaining, and single letter variables.

Optimizing for fewest LOC is probably slightly more bad than more LOC, and both are bad for the same reason - it makes it harder for humans to interpret and understand wtf terrible decisions and tradeoffs the LLM made

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> Optimizing for fewest LOC is probably slightly more bad than more LOC, and both are bad for the same reason - it makes it harder for humans to interpret and understand ...

Concision begets perplexity.

;-)

It does seem like for new code that might help. There's some really good logic and wisdom in it, but it has to be applied very contextually to the exact problem you are trying to solve. If an agent is navigating a complex codebase, this could definitely send them off on a refactoring rabbit hole. However, if you have them writing some new code, it could prevent their tendency to yak shave and write new things. So I can see some situational uses for this, but it could get out of hand as well.

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