Comment AI does it better than most programmers (Score 4, Interesting) 86
As an old-school programmer, I've been impressed with what AI can do. Unprompted, it will insert comments into the code referencing the context of our chat; e.g.
// Cache lookups in an interim map to avoid O(N^2) bottlenecks in the nested loop below.
And it will provide even more documentation and reasoning if requested in the instructions. Meanwhile I've encountered hundreds of devs in my career who couldn't or wouldn't document any of their work. I'm not surprised that AI is proving so effective at replacing them, because AI is very happy to do the so-called "boring" work of documentation and test case writing.
And it will provide even more documentation and reasoning if requested in the instructions. Meanwhile I've encountered hundreds of devs in my career who couldn't or wouldn't document any of their work. I'm not surprised that AI is proving so effective at replacing them, because AI is very happy to do the so-called "boring" work of documentation and test case writing.