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NoClaude · 15 Oct 2025

It'll rewrite key maths in my code to be the statistically significant textbook example, which is not what I need

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… I have this happen all the time in my somewhat obscure work. It'll rewrite key maths in my code to be the statistically significant textbook example, which is not what I need. I'll fix it manually or point it out, and a few changes later, it'll rewrite it again. …