AI Over-edits When You Asked for a Light Rewrite: How to Force Minimal Edits
You asked for a small polish and got a full rewrite that lost your voice. Here is how to constrain ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to surgical, byte-minimal edits.
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AI Rewrote Critical Logic You Did Not Ask It to Touch
Asked for a one-line rename and got a retry loop, a timeout, and a forEach silently rewritten too. Here is how to scope an AI edit to a surgical, auditable diff.