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Comment by moltar | Hacker News Reader

I address it with AI.

Write REVIEW.md.

I have CC check itself pretty well.

I also put into agent/claude/review instructions to write using simple English skill and humanizer skill. Then not to write redundant comments.

It’s not perfect but definitely catches lots of slop.

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It's actually insanely difficult to get LLMs not to produce comments. Even with explicit "NEVER LEAVE ANY COMMENTS WHATSOEVER", they still do, across basically all providers.

No problems with GPT-5.6 Sol here. I have an agent file that says, among other things, only to document purpose and intent, not just what the code does, and not write obvious comments. It's been so effective that it often doesn't comment anything at all, including some stuff that's so niche that it must be explained carefully. As a result, I've had to pull back a bit and tell it explicitly which areas to actually add comments for.

Every single time Claude wrote a comment i replied in all caps FUCK YOU CLAUDE I TOLD YOU NEVER TO WRITE COMMENTS, WRITE IT DOWN SO YOU NEVER FORGET: YOU DO NOT WRITE COMMENTS. ONLY HUMANS WRITE COMMENTS. and after like 3 or 4 rounds of this it finally stuck and i haven't seen a Claude comment on my personal machine in months.

I assume you are already using CLAUDE.md to give these instructions and still not working?

Claude writes it's own markdown files when i yell at it, i don't touch the config manually

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