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No, it's just bad. I've been writing a lot of Python code past two days with Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview, and all of its code was like: ```python def whatever():
by koakuma-chan 2y ago
No, it's just bad. I've been writing a lot of Python code past two days with Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview, and all of its code was like:
```python
def whatever():
--- SECTION ONE OF THE CODE ---
...
--- SECTION TWO OF THE CODE ---
try:
[some "dangerous" code]
except Exception as e:
logging.error(f"Failed to save files to {output_path}: {e}")
# Decide whether to raise the error or just warn
# raise IOError(f"Failed to save files to {output_path}: {e}")
```
(it adds commented out code like that all the time, "just in case")
It's terrible.
I'm back to Claude Code.
- brandall10 2y agoIt's certainly annoying, but you can try following up with "can you please remove superfluous comments? In particular, if a comment doesn't add anything to the understanding of the code, it doesn't deserve to be there".
- diggan 2y agoI'm having the same issue, and no matter what I prompt (even stuff like "Don't add any comments at all to anything, at any time") it still tries to add these typical junior-dev comments where it's just re-iterating what the code on the next line does.
- tough 2y agoyou can have a script that drops them all
- shawabawa3 2y agoYou don't need a follow up Just end your prompt with "no code comments"
- brandall10 2y agoI prefer not to do that as comments are helpful to guide the LLM, and esp. show past decisions so it doesn't redo things, at least in the scope of a feature. For me this tends to be more of a final refactoring step to tidy them up.
- NeutralForest 2y agoI'm seeing it trying to catch blind exceptions in Python all the time. I see it in my colleagues code all the time, it's driving me nuts.
- jerkstate 2y agoThere are a bunch of stupid behaviors of LLM coding that will be fixed by more awareness pretty soon. Imagine putting the docs and code for all of your libraries into the context window so it can understand what exceptions might be thrown!
- maccard 2y agoCopilot and the likes have been around for 4 years, and we’ve been hearing this all along. I’m bullish on LLM assistants (not vibe coding) but I’d love to see some of these things actually start to happen.
- kenjackson 2y agoI feel like it has gotten better over time, but I don't have any metrics to confirm this. And it may also depend on what type of you language/libraries that you use.
- maccard 2y agoI feel like there was a huge jump when cursor et al appeared, and things have been “changing” since then rather than improving.
- NeutralForest 2y agoIt just feels to me like trying to derive correct behavior without a proper spec so I don't see how it'll get that much better. Maybe we'll collectively remove the pathological code but otherwise I'm not seeing it.
- tclancy 2y agoWell, at least now we know who to blame for the training data :)
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