Lean Software Scaling Laws

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software developmentlarge language modelsperplexityscaling lawspredictabilityprogramming languagessoftware securitysafety

Author: gmays

Date: 7/5/2026

Article Summary:
The article proposes a research study to measure the scaling of coding Large Language Model (LLM) perplexity over codebase size to estimate the scaling laws of 'predictability' by programming language or other factors, with the goal of improving software security and safety.