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		msteffen 39 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gemini 3.1 Pro > 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...

embedding-shape 39 days ago [–]

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.

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