I don’t understand why Gemini decides to re-write every script when telling it to change x, y or z and not just copy and paste code that is not going to be changed? For example, if I have a website with a script that has 100 lines of code and I write my prompt to change a button on the homepage to …

Yes but not by just prompting the LLM itself. A language model doesn’t actually “have” your file or edit it in place every reply it produces is a freshly generated block of text based on probabilities, so even if you ask it to keep everything the same, it’s still re-creating the whole code and mere…

[image] St_Michael_the_Archa: I don’t understand why Gemini decides to re-write every script when telling it to change x, y or z and not just copy and paste code that is not going to be changed? For example, if I have a website with a script that has 100 lines of code and I write my prompt to c…

I see. I mean, can’t LLMs be programmed to do what I am describing though? Tell it to just copy and paste previous, working, unchanged code once it has made the necessary changes requested.

Gochya. Would be so nice if they found something that worked like what you are describing. I would imagine it would save a lot of time and resources when using LLMs.

clearly would be amazing indeed ! 100% agree

We should have a fix for this today as part of the new experience we are rolling out : )

You mean editing without rewrite the entire scripts right ?! :exploding_head: That would be truly incredible, just in terms of savings! :clap:

No way? Totally unexpected response, but I greatly look forward to this change! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: Thank you so much to you and your team. o7

My own gemini driven coding tool searches for a code block, if it finds it it replaces it with new code. Reduced my error rate and tokens

Alrighty. By you mentioning this does that mean you are going to share it? Does it work in AI studio?

good to hear, please let us know when AI Studio is back up and running.

Why does Gemini always rewrite entire scripts and not just copy and paste code instead?

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Sensi February 19, 2026, 2:12pm 8

You mean editing without rewrite the entire scripts right ?!

That would be truly incredible, just in terms of savings!

AI Studio only makes one change and then keeps giving errors until you copy the app

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Why does Gemini always rewrite entire scripts and not just copy and paste code instead?

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