AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · 8h ago7/10
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The Invisible Lottery: How Subtle Cues Steer Algorithm Choice in LLM Code Generation
Researchers discovered that incidental contextual cues in prompts systematically steer LLM code generation toward different algorithms, even when all outputs are functionally correct. Across 46,535 experiments, subtle variations in wording and metadata produced algorithm-choice shifts up to 100 percentage points, creating unpredictable performance and security outcomes in production code.