TRIM: Reducing AI-Generated CodeSlop via Agent Trajectory Minimization
The paper argues that AI coding agents leave unnecessary edits behind because their failed search paths leak into the final patch.
The authors name that residue “CodeSlop”: speculative, abandoned, or temporary code that still passes but makes the result larger than a human-written version. TRIM attacks the trajectory rather than the final code directly, pruning the agent’s path to reduce those leftovers. In their tests, it cut CodeSlop by 17.9% to 32.9% with negligible performance loss and about half the validation cost of Delta Debugging-style baselines. ArXiv · AI/CL/LG's note
The authors name that residue “CodeSlop”: speculative, abandoned, or temporary code that still passes but makes the result larger than a human-written version. TRIM attacks the trajectory rather than the final code directly, pruning the agent’s path to reduce those leftovers. In their tests, it cut CodeSlop by 17.9% to 32.9% with negligible performance loss and about half the validation cost of Delta Debugging-style baselines. ArXiv · AI/CL/LG's note
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