Is that what it feels like when the models get smarter than us?

Eh I don't know, I care whether it gets the job done and I can see the difference when I review the code, not how well it needs to explain the code to me, I can just read it myself.

GPT 5.6 has similar language quirks that makes its comments nearly unusable.

I wonder if this is a side effect of MoE models — they can write excellent prose, but not simultaneously with writing code.

Damn I thought it was my extra instructions, I swear everything it writes is in some shorthand with direct references to variables that literally nobody could figure out unless you literally just wrote that code 5 minutes ago. I had it stop writing comments altogether cause it was always four lines of complete and utter nonsense, and it doesn't even obey that rule half the time. Despite doing an extensive back and forth to make a complete plan, 5 seconds into the implementation it changes its mind and makes another assumption, adding some extra thing that tends to break the entire approach and needs follow-ups to repair or cleanup. Instruction following is basically non-existent compared to Fable, it just does whatever the fuck it wants.