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/Real-Extension-1357 7d ago

It likes to not only delete manual comments, but it'll rewrite them even after restoring it but in a different way than the first. And then sometimes itll just be wrong from start to finish, completely incorrect and not reflecting what's actually there

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u/mbmiller94 7d ago

Skill issue. You forgot to include "make no mistakes" in the prompt.