alt Hacker News> it's almost impossible to get Gemini to not do "helpful" drive-by-refactors
Not like human programmers. I would never do this and have never struggled with it in the past, no...
> it's almost impossible to get Gemini to not do "helpful" drive-by-refactors
Not like human programmers. I would never do this and have never struggled with it in the past, no...
Fairer comparison would be against other models, which are typically better at instruction following. You say "don't change anything not explicitly mentioned" or "Don't add any new code comments" and they tend to follow that.