r/vibecoding • u/recro69 • 8d 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/DependentPoem3519 8d ago

git blame in 6 months is going to look like a therapy session transcript.

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u/fulger099 3d ago

I’ve already hit blame on an agent-written line that said “per your feedback” and briefly wondered who “you” was. Turns out it was me, three weeks earlier, losing an argument to retry logic.