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YOUR LLM DOESN'T WRITE CORRECT CODE. IT WRITES PLAUSIBLE CODE
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LLMs often generate code that is plausible and compiles but is fundamentally incorrect or vastly inefficient. A prime example is an LLM-generated Rust rewrite of SQLite, which was found to be over 20,000 times slower for basic primary key lookups due to critical architectural flaws like missing B-tree optimizations and excessive disk synchronization. This sycophancy is a structural problem in their training.