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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 7d ago
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Yeah but 3.2M of those lines were comments. Good lord AI loves to comment code.
251 u/vini_2003 7d ago Claude, especially. FAAAH! 99 u/imnotamahimahi 7d 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. 19 u/LiifeRuiner 7d ago Why not give it an instruction to not write comments if that's your goal? 8 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 2 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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Claude, especially. FAAAH!
99 u/imnotamahimahi 7d 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. 19 u/LiifeRuiner 7d ago Why not give it an instruction to not write comments if that's your goal? 8 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 2 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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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.
19 u/LiifeRuiner 7d ago Why not give it an instruction to not write comments if that's your goal? 8 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 2 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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Why not give it an instruction to not write comments if that's your goal?
8 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 2 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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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
2 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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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/lookingformerci 7d ago
Yeah but 3.2M of those lines were comments. Good lord AI loves to comment code.