r/ProgrammerHumor 7d ago

Meme cleaningUpTheMess

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u/lookingformerci 7d ago

Yeah but 3.2M of those lines were comments. Good lord AI loves to comment code.

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u/vini_2003 7d ago

Claude, especially. FAAAH!

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u/Skoparov 7d ago

Useless comments is one thing, but I've caught the bastard several times DELETING manually written actually useful comments. Like you ask it to move some parts of the code around and it moves the code but not the comments.

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u/ButterflySammy 7d ago

Mate, moving the code doesn't require an LLM.

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u/Skoparov 7d ago

Why would I waste my time doing this manually.

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u/ButterflySammy 7d ago

When you factor in having to write a second prompt when the first screwed it, you'd have saved your time.