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I've seen the comments AI adds and yeah... No.... It's often pointing out the obvious or even in some cases just misleading.
Out of the box yes this is true, but:
If you or others ship shitty code don't blame the LLM, the issue is entirely the engineer using it wrong
Yea the comments are awful. More useless than dog shit.
Skill issue tbh
I told my boss I wouldn't use AI to help write code and sign off on the commits with my name. He told me to use it to write the documentation... it was bad. Essential concepts were not mentioned and obvious shit was explained five times in slightly different phrasing. I am now writing our documentation as an obsidian vault myself again.
I only have it compile a change log from the commit messages of commits and merges on the main and development branch. I know our commits are well written (because I established the standards for them in our repo myself) and that's concrete and rigid enough that it can't fuck it up enough to matter.
But honestly there are build tools that could do that for me, I don't need to buy tokens for that.
Yes. This is where every "have you tried Agentic AI?" conservation lands, for me.
They tell me I could pay daily, for worse results, to give up the bash script that has worked perfectly for five years. Oh, gee. Tell me more! Haha.
Sounds like what a lot of beginner programmers do as well.
Not just beginners unfortunately. One of the things I have to almost always teach to new colleagues, even experienced ones, is to put at least some minimal effort into making the code itself readable instead of relying on comments as crutches. Just basic things like picking proper names for variables and functions.
a = aa + aaa .* a3(A(aa).a2);
//assign a as a function of aa,aaa,A,a3, and a2
Nailed it
What the fuck are doing here agent? Go tenet those glass towers already.
You can add instructions to not comment, you can also have it explain what it does at every step, not everyone just doesn't care about learning. It can be a very effective teaching tool if you use it that way. 🤷
AI is a terrible way to learn something. It will do something wrong, explain it incorrectly, and you will have no idea.
AI is only useful if you are able to spot and correct the mistakes it makes. Because it will make mistakes.
Very effective teaching tools already exist if you want to learn.
"You'll have no idea" until it doesn't work lmfao
Someone hasn't done enough debugging in their life. I wish the lesson be as painless as possible
When a product is so absolutely terrible that uncommented code is the best it can do...
Y'all are delusional
I had to tell the ai to reduce the comments it made. Since it was bunch of not important information.
Agreed it's why if I'm asking for llm assistance I will generally start with a design for a component and ask it to follow that and comment accordingly usually leads to much better results than blanket asking it to do something for you
So... indistinguishable from the statistical mean of human generated comments.
There is one exceedingly important difference: who gets paid.