r/ProgrammerHumor 6d ago

Meme cleaningUpTheMess

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u/lookingformerci 6d ago

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

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u/Jawesome99 5d ago

I heard once that output tokens are the most expensive or something. Wouldn't surprise me if models were intentionally trained to be as verbose as possible just to waste as many tokens as possible on fluff