Claude’s code-comment narration looks like the same failure mode as Bash-comment reasoning

mertdumenci · x · 2026-07-24

The poster notices that Claude’s habit of awkwardly narrating the session in code comments seems related to another failure mode: reasoning inside Bash comments in scripts.

It’s a small but recognizable AI coding-agent quirk—models can start writing commentary instead of just doing the work.

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