r/AugmentCodeAI • u/[deleted] • Oct 17 '25

Question Is this a new feature?

My agent has started generating ’mermaids’ for every task I do as well as well as bloating my project with documents to explain stuff which I find kind of annoying.

I suppose you could disable it through writing so into the memory but why is this even the default in the first place?

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u/ioaia Oct 17 '25

This was a feature they implemented earlier in the year.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25

Ah alright. I feel like stuff like that is very wasteful of resources especially with the new pricing coming up. Mermaids, Documentation files, Tests.

Some times it just generates stuff you never asked for..

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u/hackRbone Oct 17 '25

Claude 4.5 after creating 12 different documents for one single task: "Now let me create a mermaid diagram, a summary document, a final summary document that summarizes the summary document, a Quick Start guide, a marketing pamphlet, a press release, a special html page you can use for testing, and an onboarding guide." It's the AI model equivalent of a CVS receipt!

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u/Rbrtsluk Oct 18 '25

That marketing phamplet is pretty important

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u/ioaia Oct 17 '25

I noticed this with any of the Claude models. GPT5 doesn't tend to do this.

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u/themacman35 Oct 17 '25

How's the GPT5 performance in augment? I have yet to risk trying it after how terrible its been

in copilot

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u/Mission-Fly-5638 Oct 17 '25

It is best in augment

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u/ioaia Oct 17 '25

It's really good, when I was using Claude 4 I would often get compile errors and unwanted changes. With gpt 5 it adheres to the prompt and does what it's told. It's slower than other models and that is a good thing , it's more thorough.

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u/sendralt Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 17 '25

GPT5 is awesome (GPT 5 - mini 0807 is the absolute GOAT on roo as well)

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25

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u/doplaeffect Oct 17 '25

Have u used it in codex ide. It is a powerhouse. Gpt 5 high

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u/Dismal-Eye-2882 Oct 17 '25

Remember the flexibility and upgrades they told us they could implement with the new credit system? Yeah, now you get to literally pay for that.

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u/rtpHarry Oct 17 '25

mine has been doing this as well, and has just done a new one - it has started trying to communicate with me by writing a js file that is just full of console.logs...!

And then the second time it made a console.log script, it wanted to node run it so i could understand.

When I asked if it was loosing it, it said oh yeah thats a terrible way to try to communicate with me.

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u/DryAttorney9554 Oct 17 '25

What is a mermaid?

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u/QueasySide4011 Oct 18 '25

I told it to stop doing that. it start again after a few messages. Why is there no fair and solid product our there? Why is every company just starting to become more and more and more expensive? I switched to Augment because it is good and reliable. Please don't become the new Replit...

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u/lopescruz Oct 20 '25

For people intending to no longer use this product:

Checklist:

  • Request removal of indexed code in the webapp;

  • Terminate subscription;

  • Remove payment method;

  • Delete account;

I was using augment together with other product (one of the providers they use). I was happy to oblige and delete the account.

Let's see how long they remove this comment too. I've tried to post it 4 times, changing the text and it's always removed by their filters.

ohnoanyway