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Now these models refuse to honor it and write worse comment slop
jarjoura on Hacker News
In the thread “Accretive Editing”
Got in the way: Models ignore CLAUDE.md rules and generate excessive comments.
… That used to work perfectly back in 2025 era models. Now these models refuse to honor it and write worse comment slop. This has become the "voice" of Opus 4.8 and I just roll my eyes when someone puts up a PR that includes more comments than code changes telling a story about all the random things it found during exploration. …