Post #3609306
2026-07-05 16:18 UTC
@dalias@hachyderm.io there's one significant difference from human written code: the amount of comments. Humans don't document as much as the machine. It helps the machine in adding more code and it helps a human understand the logic.
So, my bald claim is that it's a useful tool that's not going away any time soon, so it's alright to utilize it if you know what you're doing.
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@dalias@hachyderm.io 2026-07-05 16:26
@bonkers@nerdculture.de The kind of comments in LLM codeslop are the opposite of useful. They do not document motivations why something was done the way it was, connections to external contracts, etc. They're imprecise restatement of what's in the code. The same bad types of comments novice human codemonkeys write when told to comment their code better.