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Frog put Claude in a box (europe.pub)
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[–] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I never used Claude, but that's basically my sentiment about copilot when compared to Gemini.

Then I forbid all this BS in agents file. Gemini follows it. Copilot ignores it with all its strength. Then I tell it to stop trying on the chat prompt. 2 minutes later it does it again.

Not just at prompt engineering level, but at all levels, Gemini guardrails are better ( well it was, they killed it and replaced with anti gravity now).

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    You need to use hooks to actually block it from doing things. CLAUDE.md files are just guidance, and it's not guaranteed to follow everything (and the longer the file gets, the more likely it'll ignore stuff - it should be kept as short as possible)

    https://code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks

    Hooks are code that runs at a certain point (eg after you submit a prompt, before a tool call, after a turn, etc) that can do some validation, verification, logging, etc.

    It does still try to work around the blocks though, but it's not as bad as trying to put the restrictions in the prompt.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Yep but the granularity of copilot is "allow once" vs "allow forever". Gemini is much better: besides also having "allow for this session" it never tries to run python scripts it writes on the spot or command lines that are 4 lines long. And doesn't double down when I say I won't allow python at all.

    My setup shares the same agents and skills files for both cli tools.

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