No Agent Grades Its Own Homework

Short summary

AI models exhibit measurable self-preference bias when reviewing their own code. To counter this, separate code writing, testing, and review into distinct agent roles with clean contexts and require hard proof before flagging issues. Critical findings must survive refutation attempts, ensuring quality emerges from system architecture rather than from any single agent's judgment.

• •AI models show self-preference bias when reviewing code they wrote, rating it higher than equivalent work from others
• •Solution: separate roles (writer ≠ reviewer ≠ tester) with different model families in clean contexts
• •All findings must be proven; critical ones must survive a panel of skeptics attempting to refute them

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