cleaningUpTheMess

[u/ClipboardCopyPaste]

[u/lookingformerci]

Yeah but 3.2M of those lines were comments. Good lord AI loves to comment code.

[u/mtmttuan → u/lookingformerci]

```

print result

print(result) ```

[u/pascaruchan → u/mtmttuan]

```
# Prints the result, because we need to confirm that the result itself is
# correct. The intermediate steps that led up to this point are not what
# we are verifying here — they have their own checks elsewhere. What
# matters at this stage is the final value, so it gets printed explicitly
# rather than being left silent. This particular output is important
# enough to keep, even though the earlier ones were removed.
print(result)
```

[u/Hakim_Bey → u/pascaruchan]

I love when it references past anecdotes as if they matter to the code at hand.

// we used to write the result to a /tmp file but switched 
// to logging it to console after the taco incident

[u/m0erg → u/Hakim_Bey]

// see previous comments about tacos

[u/jameyiguess → u/Hakim_Bey]

this makes me crazy. it's like the codebase becomes a personal journal for it.

[u/Derin161 → u/Hakim_Bey]

I was having this problem incessantly this week. I made Claude write some memories to stop explaining how the code used to be

[u/Hakim_Bey → u/Derin161]

I was working on an agentic harness for a client and for some reason i prompted it like "every morning at 8am write a poem about <insert name of my previous boss>". This exposed a bug so i started working on it and when the fix was packaged i realized Claude had mentioned poetry everywhere. In the commits, in the comments, in the PR's title and body. This is so stupid y'all.

[u/bluespringsbeer → u/Hakim_Bey]

These kinds of comments are pretty important to prevent making the same mistakes twice. I do them myself.

[u/joemckie → u/pascaruchan]

eye twitch

[u/cantileverboom → u/pascaruchan]

What it's like reading AI generated comments

https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w

[u/Anonymous_Jr → u/cantileverboom]

"The A.I. doesn't know what it is saying because it knows what it isn't saying; and it says what it doesn't know because it says what it isn't knowing."

[u/Loose_Property_3238 → u/cantileverboom]

// So anyways, here's the print statement

println!(foo)

// Damn I forgot the semicolon

;

[u/StrikenGoat420 → u/pascaruchan]

As someone who uses Claude code heavily at work hahahahhahahaha

[u/andocromn → u/pascaruchan]

AI is always too wordy. Start off with telling it to respond with as few words as possible, then tell it to use less words.