Measuring Citation Entropy: A New Metric for Multi-Agent Codebase Health
Dev.to AI
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Generative AI
The Problem: Invisible Technical Debt in AI-Generated Code As multi-agent systems generate increasing amounts of production code, we lack empirical metrics to assess their long-term maintainability. Unlike human-authored code with well-established complexity metrics (cyclomatic, Halstead), AI-generated codebases exhibit unique patterns - particularly around attribution and citation density. Our research