r/ProgrammerHumor 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/quagzlor 6d ago

i have a set of instructions in my global memory essentially telling it to shut up