A maximum of 20% comment lines added to total lines added and pasting in https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260812-00/?p=11... has done wonders
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20% comment lines added to total lines added
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Helped: Pasting specific blog post and limiting comment lines to 20%.
Got in the way: Output style settings only helped visible model output, not PRs.
I've added code comment hygiene to a skill that all of my pull requests go through, alongside a review from a separate agent and a settle loop against bots in my GitHub workspace (since output style has seemed to only help literally the output I see from the model). A maximum of 20% comment lines added to total lines added and pasting in https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260812-00/?p=11... has done wonders. Even as the most Ant-pilled guy out there, I will take a moment to note that Codex on 5.6 models needs none of this...