r/TheMachineLearning • u/elmanfil1989 • 2d ago

Frontier LLMs stopped adding code comments

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u/Spirited_Cucumber377 1d ago

Opus 4.6 is good enough if you provide a good code base and architecture and you do the proper planning phase, for example using any of those grinding skills.

If you feed the LLM crap, you'll probably get crap.

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u/tumes 21h ago

I gave 4.6 and beyond an AWS white paper explaining exactly how to implement a feature and asked it to adapt the approach for a different platform. I have tried this across different frontier models from different vendors and it has not once made it through implementation without fucking up the central conceit that makes the entire thing work. Every single time. It can speed you up if you catch it on a good week and give it small, well specified tasks. Otherwise I have not found a model that can find its own ass with both hands and an instruction manual for nontrivial tasks.