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tdecktoday at 8:30 AM1 replyview on HN

I find agents need a lot of verbose instructions that are a waste of space for people. Things that are better said in a PR comment for people if needed are better front loaded for agents. People benefit from concise documentation that they are thus more likely to actually read.

For example, "don't write comments that reference things that you removed from the code" is commonly needed for coding agente and almost never needed for people.


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aabhaytoday at 8:57 AM

In general, Claude family models write absolutely terrible comments, docs, and prose. It’s basically the number 1 thing that caused everyone on my team to migrate away from Anthropic models completely.