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Comment by Tade0

I'm afraid this all gets thrown out the window nowadays.

Unless I tell them not to, LLMs lean on slapping verbose comments of the worst kind - describing the code instead of the reasons for putting it there.

I ask them to write comments in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, but all I really get from that is tersness.

Also the other day I stumbled upon a huge pile of documentation and I'm still trying to figure out if it's human or machine written. I stopped reading it half way through as I figured that perhaps it wasn't written for humans to read.

parent Tade0 1 month ago

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