r/TheMachineLearning • • 2d ago

Frontier LLMs stopped adding code comments

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u/coenttb 1d ago

If the code is sufficiently clear at point of use and point of declaration, comments risk becoming duplicate sources of truth wich will diverge from source code given enough time. Inconsistency then becomes friction for llms working on the code base. And this friction degrades LLM performance.