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Research demonstrates that removing code comments from SWE-bench Verified tasks unexpectedly improves performance for GPT-5-mini but not GPT-5.2, revealing that semantic content in comments creates model-dependent 'memetic' effects (distraction, anchoring, overgeneralization) that can either help or hinder AI agent reasoning. The study frames codebases as informational organisms and proposes antimemetics—using documentation as a defensive system to guide or constrain agent behavior.

SWE-bench Verified mini-swe-agent GPT-5-mini GPT-5.2 OpenAI requests Matplotlib Antimemetic AI
antimemeticai.com · irgolic · 1 day ago · details · hn