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If I understand correctly, it’s not that the LLM can’t write a good comment, it’s that you want to be able to interpret and understand the generated code withou
by Infernal 1mo ago
If I understand correctly, it’s not that the LLM can’t write a good comment, it’s that you want to be able to interpret and understand the generated code without comments - and in that process end up writing comments yourself.
- manwe150 1mo agoI don’t get that argument. Most of the time by the end of the session the comments from the agent encode tricky details that I told the agent to write down so it stops making “simplifying” assumptions. Thus comments at the end of a couple days of agent-only coding, when I start to actually read and edit the prose, contain the details which aren’t possible to know from reading the local code. It may help that my last couple sessions before I start reading the code myself are variations on telling the agent to self-review and improve the comments in specific ways, so the comments left are only those the agent thought remain meaningful at clarifying unexpected interactions between the local code and other code that needs to be referenced to understand it.