Does Code Cleanliness Affect Coding Agents?

Software Development, Testing & QA(arxiv.org)view on HackerNews
code cleanlinessautonomous coding agentssoftware developmenttesting and quality assurance

Author: softwaredoug

Date: 7/5/2026

Article Summary:
This paper investigates the effect of code cleanliness on autonomous coding agents' ability to navigate and modify codebases.