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In a previous piece , I wrote that I had never checked the common claim that "handing an agent context raises the quality of what it writes." And that the prior research measured only the scaffolding — the spec attached to a PR — while no one had measured the effect of accumulated decisions. This time I measured it. I cloned my own repository, stripped documents per condition, and ran the same request over and over: ten rounds of a…
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Upgrade this serverIn a previous piece , I wrote that I had never checked the common claim that "handing an agent context raises the quality of what it writes." And that the prior research measured only the scaffolding — the spec attached to a PR — while no one had measured the effect of accumulated decisions. This time I measured it. I cloned my own repository, stripped documents per condition, and ran the same request over and over: ten rounds of a controlled experiment, a hundred-odd runs in all. What I learned Always keep decisions and rejections, even if it's only the verdict and a status. A one-line…
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