alt Hacker NewsExactly. Comments are basically its scratchpad for whatever it wants. Ask it to change a number in a TOML config and it'll also add 2 new comment lines above it with some Claudeslop about it being changed and what that accomplishes, as a useless note to itself.
I now make sure to do a big decommenting pass before every PR.
This kind of stuff annoys me too, and I have instructions in agent.md to avoid it, which helps.
But I also am starting to just let go and stop caring. It’s not clear to me that it causes problems down the road, it’s easy to strip out en-masse if needed, and in my experience, agents now are really good at read git blame, the commit log, even prior agent transcripts if available to sleuth out when a change was made and why. So yeah, it’s annoying, but the code agents write for me is increasingly never read by a human, so does it matter?