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IshKebabtoday at 9:47 AM6 repliesview on HN

Definitely LLM. No humans write that many comments.


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ChrisMarshallNYtoday at 10:23 AM

Ahem...

My code usually clocs at 50/50 (or thereabouts)[0]. Has, since my very first real engineering project (in 1987)[1]. I discuss in detail, here[2].

But one reason that I like LLMs, is that they help me to write even more documentation. I have found that I can instruct an LLM to revise my documentation, and make it even more effective.

[0] https://github.com/ChrisMarshallNY (My GH profile. Pretty much everything there, is like that -has, since long before LLMs were a broken rubber on the drug store shelf).

[1] https://littlegreenviper.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/TF30... (Downloads a PDF)

[2] https://littlegreenviper.com/leaving-a-legacy/

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petutoday at 10:10 AM

Human could write that many comments to get enough base64 text for a design. Maybe to even get some of the highlighted characters in places they want (roughly equally spaced apart).

NamlchakKhandrotoday at 2:02 PM

I do

ivolimmentoday at 12:54 PM

Since LLM's are mimicking our code my guess we do...

latexrtoday at 10:24 AM

> No humans write that many comments.

Especially in a case like this, I would definitely write a lot of comments to aid in understanding, thus increasing trust so people would try it out and tinker with it.

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Tiberiumtoday at 9:49 AM

Honestly it's a bit of a shame. I checked and they could've shortened their base64 payload by 304 chars by removing all comments except the top two congratulatory ones, or by 524 if they removed those too.

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