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_--__--__ • 05/14/2025 • 1 reply • view on HN

I agree with the thrust of the blog post but honestly most of the increased line count comes from the fact that LLMs have been whipped into leaving moronic comments like

// Create a copy of the state

const stateCopy = copyState(state);


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tptacek • 05/15/2025

I'm waiting for the front line coding agents to just strip all comments from LLM output; it seems like a very reasonable thing to do, given you can just ask for comments where you think they're useful.