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by wolfejam 107 days ago
ETH Zurich tested this: LLM-generated prose context = -3% performance, +20% cost. Even human-written = +4% at +19% cost. The problem is prose bloat. Structured formats avoid that by design. https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11988
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There is research that shows the opposite. A literature survey will show you something different than a single paper.
ETH Zurich studied 5,694 PRs across 12 diverse repos.