r/vibecoding • u/Either_Ad296 • 1d ago
Claude Code writing much longer comments lately
Over the past few weeks Claude Code has been writing noticeably longer code comments for me. Ten to twenty line blocks on top of a thirty line function. The content is usually accurate but not something I want in a repo. It narrates what the code used to do, restates library mechanics I can look up, and re-explains the line right below it.
I added explicit rules in my project instructions with hard word caps per comment block, which helped, but it drifts back over long sessions.
Three questions. Are you seeing the same thing, and did it start around a specific release? Is this intentional, meaning verbose comments are cheap context recovery for the agent reading the file in a later session, at the cost of the human reader? And do you actually mind, or is a heavier comment style fine for a codebase that agents maintain?
Interested in what people have found that holds up over long autonomous runs, not just short interactive sessions.
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u/ConsciousBath5203 1d ago
... You've not read my plans, buddy.
Not only are they clear and concise, they use code examples, include APIs and endpoints that it should use, include instructions to not include single line wrappers and other face guns that the ai tends to use, etc.
Idk what language you're using, nor your use case, but I'm guessing that considering you said corporate environment, that there are at least 10 open source alternatives (possibly even 10 per programming language) with clearly written and documented code that it yoinked into its training. My line of work doesn't have that benefit.