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Sloppish · Jul 14, 2026

The Mess Tax

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A controlled study ran a coding agent over clean and messy versions of the same code. The pass rate didn't change. The token bill did: messy code cost 7 to 8% more tokens and 34% more re-reading. Technical debt is now metered.

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