Comment by JeremyNT

I agree, it's not a fundamental characteristic but a limitation of how the tool is being used.

If you just tell these things to add, they'll absolutely do that indiscriminately. You end up with these huge piles of slop.

But if I tell an LLM backed harness to reduce LOC and DRY during the review phase, it will do that too.

I think you're more likely to get the huge piles if you delegate a large task and don't review it (either yourself or with an agent).