Post #1259297
2026-04-17 13:51 UTC
Replies (7)
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@KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 2026-04-17 15:01
Agreed it’s why if I’m asking for llm assistance I will generally start with a design for a component and ask it to follow that and comment accordingly usually leads to much better results than blanket asking it to do something for you
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@Johanno@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-17 16:24
I had to tell the ai to reduce the comments it made. Since it was bunch of not important information.
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@Windex007@lemmy.world 2026-04-17 17:22
So… indistinguishable from the statistical mean of human generated comments.
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@Enkrod@feddit.org 2026-04-17 21:58
I told my boss I wouldn’t use AI to help write code and sign off on the commits with my name. He told me to use it to write the documentation… it was bad. Essential concepts were not mentioned and obvious shit was explained five times in slightly different phrasing. I am now writing our documentation as an obsidian vault myself again. I only have it compile a change log from the commit messages of commits and merges on the main and development branch. I know our commits are well written (because I established the standards for them in our repo myself) and that’s concrete and rigid enough that it can’t fuck it up enough to matter. But honestly there are build tools that could do that for me, I don’t need to buy tokens for that.
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@architect@thelemmy.club 2026-04-18 13:50
Yea the comments are awful. More useless than dog shit.
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@Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-18 14:03
You can add instructions to not comment, you can also have it explain what it does at every step, not everyone just doesn’t care about learning. It can be a very effective teaching tool if you use it that way. 🤷
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@miridius@lemmy.world 2026-04-19 08:38
Out of the box yes this is true, but: Custom instructions go a long way Review the code yourself, tell it what to fix, and it will fix it. For me it often takes like 5 rounds of this before the code is fully polished to the point I’m proud of it. And you know what? It’s still MULTIPLE times faster than typing code by hand. And at least for me, the quality is higher, because I have 12 different agents that review the work too and they catch additional issues that even I missed. If you or others ship shitty code don’t blame the LLM, the issue is entirely the engineer using it wrong