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It's actually supper annoying.

I keep asking it to write out entire pieces of code, instead of only things it changed, can be annoying to merge it otherwise. But nowadays it acknowledges my request "I will write complete code" and proceed to still comment out parts.



I think they probably finetuned that because it used to be the other way around and it was pretty bad UX to wait 1 min to apply a function change to a class or stuff like that.


Yeah sometimes you want it but sometimes you dont. I think they are enforcing it to save resources


Are you using the API, or just the ChatGPT UI? Do custom instructions/system messages help at all?

Saving resources like this seems okay(ish) for general-purpose ChatGPT, as they'd know there's a human who can interpret the abridged output. But for API-driven requests this would be pretty terrible, and makes it far harder to develop with.


no the UI, where I ask it to "Please write out entire code with skipping parts."


ChatGPT 3 or 4? Try the playground. I’ve had much better luck with system prompts.


Get it to write a diff patch?


Claude instant 100k does this all the time.




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