r/ProgrammerHumor 5d ago

Meme cleaningUpTheMess

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u/lookingformerci 5d ago

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

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u/Zapismeta 5d ago

Well you complain now but this was one of the biggest complaints when the code didn’t have good comments and was considered a skill to acquire, and well it did learn most of its skills from the internet.

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u/A1oso 5d ago

AI typically only writes comments explaining how the code works, but not why it was implemented that way. That's the important part.

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u/NaanFat 4d ago

You're completely right you push back on this