Not in my experience - you need to build the fact that you don’t want it to do that into your design and specification.

Sure, I can tell it not to do that, but it doesn't know what that is. It's a je ne sais quoi.

I can't teach it taste.

	▲	jama211 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The trick isn’t to tell it what not to do, it’s to tell it what to do. And give it examples and requirements.
	▲	dflock 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Recent Claude will just look at your code and copy what you've been doing, mostly, in an existing codebase - without being asked. In a new codebase, you can just ask it to "be conscice, keep it simple" or something.