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Taming LLMs: Using Executable Oracles to Prevent Bad Code


John Regehr, March 26 2026. By this point, most of us who have experimented with Claude, Codex, and other LLM-based coding agents have noticed that the current generation of these can sometimes do good work, at superhuman speed, when given some kinds of highly constrained tasks.

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