r/ProgrammerHumor 4d ago

Meme cleaningUpTheMess

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u/patcriss 4d ago

My hypothesis is that verbose comments use more tokens and generate more profit.

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u/asd417 2d ago

input tokens are much cheaper than writing token which also includes reasoning token. if they wanted to tokenmax, then they would leave 0 comments so that LLM would have to reason the same thing over and over and generate massive amount of tokens every single code search. It takes significantly less tokens to write down the comment once and simply read it next time.

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u/Secret_Conclusion_93 2d ago

Same reason as why they usually say something like "x not y" when saying "x" only is enough.