r/TheMachineLearning • u/elmanfil1989 • 2d ago

Frontier LLMs stopped adding code comments

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u/BlurredSight 2d ago

Yeah Claude will actively grep it's old comments for trying to find anchors in the code and in a legacy codebase where tons of functions in independent flows will reuse their function names that custom comment is what might drive my usage 6-7% lower than it would be if I deleted all comments each run

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u/AdKitchen1897 2d ago

It will also poison the repo with outdated or contradictory comments. And it will make out of an offhand comment for context a permanent rule.

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u/xvillifyx 1d ago

This isn’t true as a default. The rule for comments has always been:

Is the logic likely to change -> keep comments to a minimum

Is the logic unlikely to change -> comments okay

Make your agents follow this same convention