[pdantix]

recent gpts are horrendous for this, whereas recent claudes have a tic where they incessantly add useless comments referring to previous changes and will use multiple single-line comments instead of a standard multi-line docblock.

[tyg13]

The incessant need to constantly leave "the code doesn't work like <bad implementation>, it works like <good implementation>" frustrates me to no end. No amount of directions against it in project MEMORY, CLAUDE.md, or even embedded in the prompt seem to be able to stop it from doing this. I don't understand how it could have gotten into the training because I've legitimately never seen an actual person write code comments like this.

[ulrikrasmussen]

It writes code as if the audience is you, the user of Claude, and not other developers reading the code in the future. I found that it helped to instruct it to keep in mind who the audience is and only write comments that describe the current state of the code and never describe anything that can just be inferred from the git history. I found that that helped, and I almost never see these nonsense comments anymore.

[pishpash]

Maybe it's self trained. It eats its own output and likes it...

[galaxyLogic]

Sounds like my code. They may have been trained on my code!