Comment by kybernetikos

I've been trying to understand this. It's been the universal experience of our team that claude code overcomments, and doesn't have very good adherence to prompts telling it to comment less. The team moved recently from cursor where we mainly used claude models and it was much faster and commented more appropriately. I figured that since the models were the same, maybe it was just the system prompt, so I went looking in tweakcc etc. All of the mentions of code comments in the system prompts seem to be also telling it to be terse and only use them when appropriate, which also seem to be ignored. I'm not sure where this overcommenting is coming from unless it's getting confused by other parts of the system prompt talking about other kinds of comments.