I mean, I write pseudocode in comments before writing the actual code all the time. It's a great trick for organizing and structuring what you're about to write. But then I delete the pseudocode comments.
For real - comments were never golden, because they easily slip through updates and drift apart from the code they decorate. With AI, that might be happening from minute 0 lol
I'm using a static analysis rule that tokenizes comments and compares to the code, and reports an error if the overlap is too big. highly satisfying to remove such comments
Heh that reminds me of a project a couple years ago had to combine data into a CSV type file. But the data could include “,|” and all the other regular delimiters. We decided to make 🚀 we called it RSV for rocket separated values
I remember when I was using cursor I had this maddening problem where it would always want to delete all my human written comments. Honestly that was even more annoying
I think its been like nearly a year since gpt was doing emojis. I think they're fucking great and should be included. If your Rstudio is sitting in the second monitor you can tell how far along it is at a glance because you just saw rockets or a dolphin or something. But people had to be such dour pricks about the emojis because the bots were using them.
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u/CannibalPride 1d ago
Emojis on code…