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by joegibbs 45 days ago
I don't think there's a name for it yet, you'll have to coin one. There's a related thing they do like this:

- The user tells the agent to add feature X

- The agent adds the feature

- User: "Yeah that's good but I don't think we need Y that you added, get rid of it"

- The agent removes Y, adds comments that Y was removed, adds backwards-compatibility for saves which used Y (obviously there aren't any, since Y only existed for 5 minutes and was never deployed - the project itself might never have been deployed either), adds a test for Y's non-existence, adds text to the UI saying "Note: Y has been removed. There are no traces of Y in the project"

I think that GPT-5.5 does it the most.

1 comments

You missed the part where context compacts, it realizes Y is missing and reimplements it from scratch and proudly boasts that it did the exact opposite of what you had asked