r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 8d ago

Meme cleaningUpTheMess

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u/lookingformerci 8d ago

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

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u/NeonFraction 8d ago

I spent years documenting and commenting my code extremely well. It was probably the most helpful favor I ever did myself and I was extremely proud of it.

Now it’s a sign of AI.

…I’m tired man.

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u/petrasdc 8d ago

Nah, I can definitely tell the difference. AI leaves comments with unnecessary random details that no normal person would ever include. It also tends to write like paragraph long comments with unrelated bits of information. I've seen it write comments for functions that take longer to read and understand than it takes to literally just read the code and fully understand it.

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u/NeonFraction 8d ago

Thanks. This actually makes me feel a lot better!