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xmprtyesterday at 11:10 PM2 repliesview on HN

Human comments tend to be short and sweet like "nit: rename creatorOfWidgets to widgetFactory". Whereas AI code review comments are long winded not as precise. So even if there are 20 humans comments, I can easily see which are important and which aren't.


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SchemaLoadtoday at 1:56 AM

My coworker is so far on this spectrum it's a problem. He writes sentences with half the words missing making it actually difficult to understand what he is trying to suggest.

All of the non critical words in english aren't useless bloat, they remove ambiguity and act as a kind of error correction if something is wrong.

Quarrelsomeyesterday at 11:31 PM

it "nit" short for nitpick? I think prefixing PR comments with prefixes like that is very helpful for dealing with this problem.

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