Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation

Constraint Decay paper (arXiv:2605.06445) identifies systematic degradation in LLM agent adherence to backend code constraints under production-grade specifications. Agents perform well under loose specs but fail to maintain strict requirements over multi-step generation. Directly relevant to teams deploying agentic coding pipelines in production environments where correctness guarantees matter.