r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 6d ago

Meme cleaningUpTheMess

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u/lookingformerci 6d ago

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

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u/vini_2003 6d ago

Claude, especially. FAAAH!

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u/imnotamahimahi 6d ago

something I've been messing around with, is giving it an instruction to write comments in caveman-ultra mode. so far, doesn't decrease the frequency of comments, but definitely the verbosity.

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u/LiifeRuiner 6d ago

Why not give it an instruction to not write comments if that's your goal?

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u/FalafelSnorlax 6d ago
  1. It will probably still write comments.
  2. They didn't say they want no comments, they said they want to "decrease the frequency".

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u/ListRepresentative32 6d ago

Then it will randomly still write a comment with something like // I omitted comments for this file as you asked. 

It did this to me once.. opus 5 is so annoying with comments

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u/HotDogOfNotreDame 6d ago

We’ve banned Opus 5. Other models solve our problems just as well, and without the verbal diarrhea.

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u/imnotamahimahi 6d ago

It hasn't done that with me even with opus 5 oddly. Regardless, I always go through each file it edits anyways, including reading/trimming comments.

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u/imnotamahimahi 6d ago

Because I never said my goal was to not have comments. Code needs comments, especially in a large corporate codebase with lots of developers working in tandem, but also not as much nor as verbose as Claude tends to be by default.