I told my boss I wouldn’t use AI to help write code and sign off on the commits with my name. He told me to use it to write the documentation… it was bad. Essential concepts were not mentioned and obvious shit was explained five times in slightly different phrasing. I am now writing our documentation as an obsidian vault myself again.
I only have it compile a change log from the commit messages of commits and merges on the main and development branch. I know our commits are well written (because I established the standards for them in our repo myself) and that’s concrete and rigid enough that it can’t fuck it up enough to matter.
But honestly there are build tools that could do that for me, I don’t need to buy tokens for that.
Not just beginners unfortunately. One of things I have to almost always teach to new colleagues, even experienced ones, is to put at least some minimal effort into making the code itself readable instead of relying on comments as crutches. Just basic things like picking proper names for variables and functions.
Agreed it’s why if I’m asking for llm assistance I will generally start with a design for a component and ask it to follow that and comment accordingly usually leads to much better results than blanket asking it to do something for you
I’ve seen the comments AI adds and yeah… No… It’s often pointing out the obvious or even in some cases just misleading.
I told my boss I wouldn’t use AI to help write code and sign off on the commits with my name. He told me to use it to write the documentation… it was bad. Essential concepts were not mentioned and obvious shit was explained five times in slightly different phrasing. I am now writing our documentation as an obsidian vault myself again.
I only have it compile a change log from the commit messages of commits and merges on the main and development branch. I know our commits are well written (because I established the standards for them in our repo myself) and that’s concrete and rigid enough that it can’t fuck it up enough to matter.
But honestly there are build tools that could do that for me, I don’t need to buy tokens for that.
Sounds like what a lot of beginner programmers do as well.
Not just beginners unfortunately. One of things I have to almost always teach to new colleagues, even experienced ones, is to put at least some minimal effort into making the code itself readable instead of relying on comments as crutches. Just basic things like picking proper names for variables and functions.
a = aa + aaa .* a3(A(aa).a2);
//assign a as a function of aa,aaa,A,a3, and a2
Nailed it
What the fuck are doing here agent? Go tenet those glass towers already.
I had to tell the ai to reduce the comments it made. Since it was bunch of not important information.
Agreed it’s why if I’m asking for llm assistance I will generally start with a design for a component and ask it to follow that and comment accordingly usually leads to much better results than blanket asking it to do something for you
So… indistinguishable from the statistical mean of human generated comments.
There is one exceedingly important difference: who gets paid.