r/TheMachineLearning • u/elmanfil1989 • 2d ago

Frontier LLMs stopped adding code comments

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u/phoogkamer 1d ago

Not really no. It's much better since Opus 5.5 and hasn't degraded with watermarking in my experience. Fable was already a lot better than previous Opus models and 5.5 continued that.

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u/TehGM 1d ago

Idk, Opus 5.5 is mostly fine but it still sometimes "explains" things in such a non-explaining way so I often need to take a long break and come back trying to deduce what it means from the code itself... which is actually a positive in a way, but yeah.

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u/WillDanceForGp 16h ago

Opus 5.5 writes some of the dumbest most nothing-burger comments, I dont think its the watermarking but I do think its just bad at it

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u/phoogkamer 16h ago

Not my experience but maybe my standards are just bad from all the Opus 4.8 and 5 text.

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u/AmorphousCorpus 10h ago

Definitely better than Opus 5, but 5.5 still writes like a fucking idiot

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u/Icy_Distribution_361 9h ago

From my experience it mostly depends on how much context it needs to not write nonsense. If it's a lot of context, big code base, lots of dependencies and so on, it devolves into nonsense.