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Same feature, two diffs: 100 vs 57. I built a gate that scores AI code changes.

Ask an AI coding agent to fix a one-line greeting bug and you know what comes back: it works — and it brings friends. A new module, a framework, four abstractions, a fresh dependency. The fix is correct. The codebase pays for it forever. That bloat is the failure mode nobody's CI checks for.

  • "diffdiet" tool limits AI code changes
  • Assigns "diet score" 0-100 to diffs
  • Fails gate if score below 60

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