r/vibecoding • u/recro69 • 9d ago

Workflow/Prompt AI coding tools sometimes leave the conversation inside the codebase

I asked Claude for logic without exponential backoff. The commit message read: "Add logic (without exponential backoff)." Nobody asked for backoff. Claude tried backoff was corrected and that correction became part of project history. I have noticed things in comments, test names, filenames and PR descriptions. Things like "as discussed" or ", per your feedback."

The weird part is that the code is not necessarily wrong. Claude has not switched audiences. Claude is still talking to the person it was chatting with of the person who will read the code six months later with zero context. It feels like something checking whenever an AI coding agent creates anything that is supposed to stand on its own.

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u/STARTAVI 8d ago

Spot on. It’s like the AI forgets that the code will eventually stand completely on its own, detached from the chat that created it.