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Good news: the universe is written in LISP. Bad news: with no comments.

• latexr 7mo ago
  > the universe is written in LISP Ostensibly. Honestly most of it was hacked together with Perl. https://xkcd.com/224/ https://xkcd.com/224/
  • mghackerlady 7mo ago
    I like to imagine perl was bootstrapped from forth and used to build a lisp
• dpcan 7mo ago
  You can ask AI to comment an entire code base now in as much detail as you need.
  • deleted 7mo ago
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  • embedding-shape 7mo ago
    Comments explaining what the code does, which is what an LLM could answer, are basically useless comments. Comments that describes why the code is how it is, is a bit more valuable, but also something LLMs cannot really reliably infer by just looking at the code.