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I Built an AI Agent That Optimizes Code — But Benchmarks Decide What Survives

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I Built an AI Agent That Optimizes Code — But Benchmarks Decide What Survives AI coding agents are getting very good at proposing changes. The problem is that they are also very good at making changes that look like optimizations. A refactor can appear cleaner. A loop can look more efficient. A dat…

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  1. 2026-09-16 10:03 · DEV Community — AI
    I Built an AI Agent That Optimizes Code — But Benchmarks Decide What Survives

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