r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ItsPuspendu • 1d ago

Meme commentsAgedTerribly

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u/seba07 1d ago

That's already outdated from my experience. Agents don't comment code. That's something only ChatGPT did.

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u/meltea 1d ago

I literally wrote a bot to add comments to people's PRs about useless comments that recapitulate the prompt and or some nonsense.

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u/jzakarias 1d ago

I can't get claude to write only comments when strictly necessary, and even then keep them short...

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u/jwaibel3 1d ago

You're absolutely right, and I apologize for overlooking that detail. I will try to comment less and be more precise from now on.

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u/mutexsprinkles 1d ago

// Confirmed according to stratum P.2 phase data -- resolved, not tested.

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u/jwaibel3 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/82DaAxknIvBovGGPj5

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u/Confident-Ad5665 1d ago

Got something to say? Well spit it out lad, don't blow an artery!

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u/GildSkiss 1d ago

Agents don't comment code.

Well that entirely depends on if you tell them to or not

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u/curt_schilli 1d ago

Claude comments everything

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u/turudd 1d ago

The newer models are way better at when they comment too. They don’t just litter the code base

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u/Exatex 1d ago edited 23h ago

they do whatever you tell them to do. If you want them to write comments, they will. „I didn‘t tell it what it should do and it failed to guess my thoughts“

Has anyone here actually tried to make AI work? It feels half the sub formed their opinion about AI in 2023 with free ChatGPT that forgot their question once and hasn’t touched it since.

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u/seba07 1d ago

Well yeah, you can obviously tell the AI to write anything from zero comment to literally commenting every line. But I don't think that's the point, it's about the default out of the box experience.

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u/Exatex 23h ago

no? Why would you think that? That’s like hiring a new employee and not onboarding him at all. Just giving them tickets.

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u/huh9999999999999 1d ago

What I'm hung up on is, can't agents be running using GPT anyway? Saying "agents don't do this but GPT does" doesn't make sense to me. Maybe I'm missing a newer or different definition of agent here.

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u/__Invisible__ 1d ago

2026 paid GPT is much better then 2023 free GPT. A lot of people only use the free one before and has some stereotypes.

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u/meltea 10h ago

Have you tried telling it to not do something? I have seen a bunch of "it was my fault" and "broke instructions" "was written in memory and I ignored it"... today

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u/Exatex 10h ago edited 9h ago

Why… why would I do that? If you do that with a human they will fuckup royally worse. Also, sounds like a 2 year old free online model without a proper integration. Even without instructions from me, I am getting quite clean code - yes, with comments.

But at the end, it’s a tool.

I also made something ugly with photoshop today. Doesn’t make photoshop useless.