Beyond Coding

Why Coding Agents Keep Making Your Codebase Worse

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HumanLayer CEO Dexter Horthy, who coined "context engineering", on why AI agents degrade codebases over time. He breaks down a benchmark that measures AI code quality across features, and how his team ships with agents without drowning in slop.

In this video, we cover:

SlopCodeBench, SWE-bench and which coding benchmarks to trust

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