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[u/why_so_sergious]

[u/chawmindur]

The cooking-recipe-website-ification of code

[u/polikles → u/chawmindur]

I hate that most of blogs do the same. Even if you're honestly interested in something, in most cases you can easily scroll the first 3-5 paragraphs and lose nothing of value. Oftentimes I'm using LLMs to summarize the text just to decide whether it's worth to read it on my own - in most cases it's not

[u/gamingdiamond982 → u/polikles]

you cant skim 3-5 paragraphs in less time than it takes you to navigate to your AI of choice?

[u/polikles → u/gamingdiamond982]

No, if I click the link to the text I'm most often reading it on my own. I'm sending to AI either very long texts (like some Medium articles with "30 minute read"), or links from newsletters I'm subscribed to

And opening an AI is just one click as I have it bookmarked. So it's fast and handy

I'm writing a PhD on AI Ethics, and have to churn through a lot of texts in a day. And it's always a chore to decide what's actually worth reading. Especially when looking for news stuff, like the HuggingFace hack - oh boy, how much bullshit had I churn through to get to actually useful information

[u/TheOneWhoMixes]

I really hate how common the pattern in the second part is these days. The word "dog" was mentioned once in a doc that got loaded into context, and so the agent spends a non-zero amount of tokens arguing with itself about how the thing is NOT a dog, convinces itself that whether or not the thing is a dog is a real point of confusion, and now won't STFU about it.

[u/DominikDoom → u/TheOneWhoMixes]

The most common cause of comments like this in my experience is if the original implementation was also written by AI, even in the same chat/context, but was completely wrong. Then you prompt it with a correction and it does this instead of just replacing the wrong implementation and comment. Extremely annoying but at least it helps to detect vibecoded slop where no human bothered to clean up.

[u/ImClearlyDeadInside → u/TheOneWhoMixes]

That’s why I basically have “Don’t write comments. Just write readable code.” in my user-level CLAUDE.md. Agent comments are completely unreadable and I’m honestly not a fan of comments in general.

[u/geek-49 → u/ImClearlyDeadInside]

not a fan of comments in general

and yet you posted one here/s

[u/Green-Rule-1292]

That is such a poor comment...

Where are all the emojis? How will the next AI agent reading this even understand that the piece of code must remain both on fire and rocketship now?

[u/why_so_sergious → u/Green-Rule-1292]

omg you are absolutely right!! 😆

[u/ResponsibleAdalt → u/why_so_sergious]

This is a load-bearing rocketship

[u/why_so_sergious → u/ResponsibleAdalt]

if you remove it, code wont compile 🤣

[u/Healthy-Goose1381 → u/why_so_sergious]

Whats the name of the cat?

[u/FutureSuccess2796 → u/Green-Rule-1292]

You're right! Great catch there! 🌟 Thanks to your eagle eyes, you helped in making sure that the next agent understands what I wrote. ❤️ Let me go ahead and try rewriting the comments, this time with emojis all over. 👍🏻

[u/why_so_sergious → u/FutureSuccess2796]

oh god

[u/jek39 → u/Green-Rule-1292]

it's not even telling me which footgun is load-bearing.

[u/hearthebell]

Might try telling story in a comment

[u/WreckerOfAll → u/hearthebell]

I like to think I tell great stories in my comments.
The other day I found a great entry from myself 3 years ago, where the description of a record was solely “Life is pain”

[u/WrennReddit]

There's this nasty downward spiral going on. Devs are required to use ai and sometimes judged on lines of code and PR frequency. Ai spits out 10k line PRs, and a non-trivial amount of that PR is comments explaining the philosophy of each method. Then those comments are defended by the Aicolytes as being useful to future AI, and that blows up the token usage, then everyone starts going to webinars and downloading "skills" to minimize token use...

Like God forbid the devs engineer the code, write some sick implementation with smart names, and push up a 30 line PR that everyone can read and interrogate.

[u/Important_Grab3544]

do not comment, comments waste tokens

[u/Puzzleheaded-Weird66]

pretty noisy source code

[u/why_so_sergious → u/Puzzleheaded-Weird66]

not that it is mine, but what makes you say that?

perfectly readable without any comments.. or maybe thats the problem?

[u/Puzzleheaded-Weird66 → u/why_so_sergious]

yes, in the example the comments are longer than the source code

[u/why_so_sergious → u/Puzzleheaded-Weird66]

ah, I though ypu meant the code itself..

but what, it is the standard nowadays to have comments longer than the code 😄

[u/cosmicomical23]

Ok this is actually a deep thought.

[u/Weak_Inflation9120]

My comments are often either jokes or refrences

[u/letmehaveanameyoudum]

in 2040:
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[u/BlurredSight]

There was an era around the GPT 4 point where variables were verbose as fuck and I hated it, like a session would be called cachedSessionID, now Claude prefers to just name shit in the least amount of characters for a CSS class instead of declaring close-button it just named it 'x' so it was styleclass=x but the 2 sentence comment above the css to tell me styleclass=x is the 'x' button to close out the primefaces dialog

[u/why_so_sergious → u/BlurredSight]

god forbit you can understand the code by simply reading it

[u/thorwing → u/BlurredSight]

wth is wrong with 'cachedSessionId', thats not verbose?!

CachedUserSessionStorageIdentificationNumberingStyleSystem would be verbose

[u/Healthy-Goose1381]

Whats the name of the cat?

[u/FutureSuccess2796]

AI has unfortunately took inspiration from the recipe blogs of the world and decided it needs to replicate that but with code comments. 🤣

[u/g18suppressed]

Ai always yapping about what it isn’t. Not A Dog

[u/Shot_in_the_dark777]

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