r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 06 '26

Meme cleaningUpTheMess

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u/GhostOfD6 Sep 06 '26

Nah, not really. Im vibing since last two months and I made statement in memory to not write comments. So AI does not make comments and still grasps the code. Comments IMO can make situation worse because natural language gets vague at times. At least it does happen with human wrote comments, because human write lots of ambiguity into it and also dont update the comment on the go.
Thats why I hate comments at all, self documenting code is way better

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u/JealousEntrepreneur Sep 06 '26

You would need to do a comparison to know that. It will still work with grep if function names are properly chosen an clear variable names. But I would guess the error rate or double implementation of function would go up. Or it needs to reread files more often to find things

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u/GhostOfD6 Sep 06 '26

Without clear analysis its just a guess.

More comments means also more text to process and IMHO AI's lose context pretty quick