Amir M. Ebrahimi

To Add Is Machine, To Delete Is Human: Measuring and Mitigating Deletion Avoidance in LLM Code Editing

Amir M. Ebrahimi, Mohammed Mehedi Hasan, Aaditya Bhatia, Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, Ahmed E. Hassan

Large language models increasingly write and repair production code, yet evidence is mounting that their test-passing patches leave codebases harder to maintain. We identify one concrete source: deletion avoidance, the systematic tendency to retain code that an intended edit requ…Read more