Indeed. Taking the top principal component pattern matches as 'more surgical / targeted' so the LLM staples it on (consider prompts like: make this method stop

Indeed. Taking the top principal component pattern matches as 'more surgical / targeted' so the LLM staples it on (consider prompts like: make this method stop degrading model performance). It ignores that _what_ is being targeted is as or more important than that 'something' is being targeted. But that's LLMs for you. (in case it isn't immediately obvious, that paper is AI written too)