How to combat unclear code intent?

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I am using gpt-codex and the code it makes is really messy.

• Fixing a problem with a missing libarary? --> try to import it from 4 different places (now you cannot see where it is supposed to come from, without debugging)

• Something fails --> implements all kinds of fall back logic without fixing the core problem (now it is hard to figure out what functions the core logic is relaying on. It also gets redundant)

It feels like a programmer feverishly coding to fix a problem, without trying to understand the original intent of the code.

This is not just happening in existing projects, but also from scratch projects, with no existing code.