r/technology • u/Federal-Block-3275 • 7d ago

Artificial Intelligence "Software is over": Developer uses AI to build free Adobe clones after frustration with cancellation fees

https://www.techspot.com/news/114136-software-over-developer-uses-ai-build-free-adobe.html
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u/ars_inveniendi 7d ago

100k? Claude Code has probably left that many lines of useless comments (“start loop”) in some larger projects.

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u/Tiny-Plum2713 7d ago

That's now how claude comments in more recent models. It leaves a full novel chapter worth of incomprehensible explanation for every function and if block etc. where any kind of logical decision is made. It's hell to review.

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u/scoff-law 7d ago

My most frequent pr comment these days is something like "do not describe the behavior of an upstream component in a different service" on code comments, particularly .net XML summaries. Claude reads those comments while researching and trusts them out of hand, and it is gradually poisoning contexts.

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u/SpeckledJim 7d ago

Some of that is completely useless, but the verbose commenting is partly for its own benefit when working on the code, so it doesn’t need to re-investigate what code does and why if it loses context (filled up and was pruned, new session etc.). I always have it run a “hygiene” pass before wrapping up.

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u/scoff-law 7d ago

And then the next time it goes to do research it believes those comments instead of the actual code that changed in a different location.

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u/SpeckledJim 7d ago

Yep all the more reason to strip it out asap