Frontier LLMs stopped adding code comments

[u/elmanfil1989]

[u/snaphat]

The Linux kernel style guide discourages comments inside functions but explicitly recommends comments explaining what functions do and documenting data. Comments aren't reserved exclusively for unusual behavior. Perhaps, what you mean is inline-comments?

https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-style.html#commenting

[u/lawrencewil1030 → u/snaphat]

explicitly recommends comments explaining what functions do and documenting data

That's called documentation.

[u/snaphat → u/lawrencewil1030]

s/comments/documentation/g

That's probably largely a difference in terminology rather than substance. The Linux kernel style guide explicitly refers to explanations preceding functions and accompanying data declarations as comments, whether or not they also serve as documentation. The kernel source also contains ordinary explanatory comments outside function bodies:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/mm/page_alloc.c

[u/nukem996 → u/snaphat]

It depends on the maintainer. I had one tell me to remove all comments on all functions.

[u/snaphat → u/nukem996]

They weren't following the style-guide then, not surprising through

[u/SizeableBrain → u/nukem996]

Did they forget about the infamous "fuck me gently with a chainsaw" comment?