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Re: It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI

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Post by acedTrex » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 2:34 PM UTC

zahlman wrote: post #108

acedTrex wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I completely block all LLM comments via pi extension, it makes using them significantly more enjoyable. If the LLM wants to add a comment it must ASK me explicitly to do so. Seeing LLM comments in other peoples code is very upsetting because theres just so much meaningless noise.

What happens when the LLM tries to defy this? Is the file-write rejected, or does the extension just strip comments from what gets written, or just what?

I have it set up to pop up an approval dialogue that shows me the comments its trying to write and if i reject it the model is told essentially "no comments allowed, retry the patch without them."

It usually only takes one of those in the context for the model to reorient its behavior for future edits.

Re: It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI

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Post by butlike » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 2:43 PM UTC

Well, yeah. It used to be you traded money for your time building someone else's dream. Now you do it for free. What kind of value proposition is that?

I love you guys, but number 1 is numero uno, and if the chips are down and I'm working for free, I'm going to be working on myself.

Re: It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI

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Post by abjhn » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 3:19 PM UTC

synalx wrote: post #3

I have this problem even in codebases. Claude will work on something, and add detailed comments in which it extrapolates the from the design and confidently states intentions and decisions which aren't actually grounded in reality. Then, later sessions suffer when it reads back those hallucinations and treats them as canonical.

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Re: It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI

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Post by abjhn » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 3:22 PM UTC

a2ff6eeb0 wrote: post #24

gdulli wrote: post #10

What am I even here for if not to have my own ideas?

That's for you to find out. When we automated muscles in the industrial revolution, people used to value strength. Today they value thought. They may value something else in the future.

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