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> At least back in the day there weren't endless comments about how this widget is load-bearing By far the biggest problem 90% of developers have with AI is th

> At least back in the day there weren't endless comments about how this widget is load-bearing By far the biggest problem 90% of developers have with AI is that they should be turning off comments, as it's clear that the training data they have is no good for developing a theory of mind for an engineer who has to read them. I've turned them off and add them myself at review time and am quite happy.

zahlman 13d ago
Requiring the coding agent to (try to) iterate on code clarity until comments are no longer necessary, probably doesn't hurt either. Save the commentary for conversation logs, agent Markdown files, and other sorts of documentation.