alt Hacker News> it's almost impossible to get Gemini to not do "helpful" drive-by-refactors
Just asking "Explain what this service does?" turns into
[No response for three minutes...]
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BartShoot • yesterday at 6:27 PM
if you had to ask it obviously needs to refactor code for clarity so next person does not need to ask
kylec • yesterday at 5:27 PM
"I don't know what did it, but here's what it does now"
moffkalast • yesterday at 9:35 PM
I've seen Kimi do this a ton as well, so insufferable.
SignalStackDev • yesterday at 6:03 PM
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it's also so aggressive about taking out debug log statements and in-progress code. I'll ask it to fill in a new function somewhere else and it will remove all of the half written code from the piece I'm currently working on.