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Excuse me? Those tokens are expensive, fuck you very much for wasting them.
this isn't just necessary, it's mandatory. that's the difference.
This is the load bearing comment, and it cuts more deeply than you thought. Let me ground my answer so I'm not just guessing. The blast radius of this change is significant and requires careful surgery to get right. It's clear now and there's two options going forward: A. Use this tool OP suggested B. Rewrite the Internet from the ground up without this clear contradiction in place - 3-5 days I recommend B and starte…
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This speaks to the general problem with using LLMs for writing. The audience they are writing for us you, but you're trying to write for a totally different audience. In code, this manifests as comments in the code that are hyperspecific to the conversation you are having, and not the long term benefit of having those comments in the code. I see this in docs a lot. I've been reading a lot of docs these days where it…
>It's like it has no conception This is the point.
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how do they infuse this personality? do they train the human feedback providers with a certain personality?
If we assume the personalities come from human feedback, it would have to be some unholy amalgamation of those feedback providers right?
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I don’t even think comments are useful at all given AI. I can ask my AI to explain a piece of code if I am stuck and I will get a reply in context of what I am looking for.
But comments should hopefully explain "why", not what or how, and that kind of context is exactly what an LLM is likely to be missing
I've started giving these instructions and I think I've been much more successful in generating clear output: Comment blocks are Limiting the number of words is the strongest factor in cleaning up the output, IMO. For older code I've instructed it to delete all the comments, and then I re-comment it using a new session and these guidelines, asking it to rejustify the need for every comment to itself.
Claude not only writes verbose comments, it also writes comments about how things used to work when refactoring. That might have a place in version control comments, but not in the code.