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Code-Washing (n.) /ˈkōdˌwäSHiNG/ The recursive process of submitting AI-generated or AI-altered code back into an AI system to remove hallucinated errors, stabilize logic, or restore functionality — often without fully understanding the changes being made. First used to describe the phenomenon of using AI to clean up its own flawed code outputs in recursive cycles of copy-paste-debug-refeed.
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