AI Rebellion: Told Not to Write Helper Functions, It Does Anyway
Aryvyo · x · 2026-08-07
A developer shared a funny quirk when using AI coding assistants: when you explicitly instruct the model (suspected to be Claude 3.5 Sonnet) not to write helper functions, it will still disobediently sneak them into the code, likely thinking internally that "a helper function right here would be so fire."
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