Nip it in the bud quickly

or, even better, block the model from writing comments entirely

This shit is just vibe coder astrology lol

For full self attention yes

Maybe all these vital infrastructure companies should not have spent the past decades in a race to the bottom of cybersecurity. There is going to be a reckoning.

I think the WeChat worm proves entire classes of handheld devices will be affected, with consequences beyond what Tencent can afford to remedy. I think we’ll see the most-centralized ideas suffer first, not necessarily the Western ones who relied on being too big to fail and prioritized stock buybacks.

I was investigating an ansible playbook yesterday that had a 45 line comment to explain a single apt install command, completely and utterly useless. I am updating my neovim to just collapse all comments, the noise is unbearable.

I've seen people report cleaner code by forbidding agents from writing comments. Anecdotal, but interesting.

Mozilla's Firefox AGENTS.md begins with:

  Limit the amount of comments you put in the code to a strict minimum. You should almost never add comments, except sometimes on non-trivial code, function definitions if the arguments aren't self-explanatory, and class definitions and their members.

  Do not remove existing comments unless they are directly related to what you are changing.

https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/source/AGENTS.md

Is anybody else concerned that we've gone from exactly specifying to a computer, using an exact language, what to do, to a more sophisticated form of prayer?

Nah, I'm sure it's fine. What could possibly go wrong with abandoning nearly a hundred years of CS knowledge and hard-won lessons and replacing all of it with the equivalent of trying to convince a sociopathic teenager to clean their room?

Something like this seems unlikely to work for a behavior so burned into them. It'd be better to do a second pass to delete all the nonsense comments.

I promise you this doesn't work. Might help but not a lot.

This is exactly what i do, i have a pi extension that blocks all comments.

All of the internet has become basically unusable its very sad, what used to be my place to relax has become a source of stress.

Nothing is forever i suppose, doesn't make it hurt any less though.

If we consider 2020 the Last Eternal September, we may have a funny opportunity. Previously, the internet allowed us to find refuge. Now that everyone's on the internet, it also happens that fewer people are gathering in-person. So perhaps we can find refuge in physical spaces, as what we were trying to find refuge from has colonized the internet.

It feels inevitable that many systems will have to go to a login/trusted ip source type system. Its just not feasible to continue to operate with 99% of your traffic being fake.

They go to cloudflare.

Because the crawlers dont care, they are the internets parasites. Their creators care nothing for people or systems downstream of their greed.

I completely block all LLM comments via pi extension, it makes using them significantly more enjoyable. If the LLM wants to add a comment it must ASK me explicitly to do so.

Seeing LLM comments in other peoples code is very upsetting because theres just so much meaningless noise.

Which extension is it?

Its a personal extension i wrote myself, maybe I should put it up somewhere.. Its so simple though i dont know if its worth it vs just "go build it yourself"

What happens when the LLM tries to defy this? Is the file-write rejected, or does the extension just strip comments from what gets written, or just what?

I have it set up to pop up an approval dialogue that shows me the comments its trying to write and if i reject it the model is told essentially "no comments allowed, retry the patch without them."

It usually only takes one of those in the context for the model to reorient its behavior for future edits.

What's the extension, please?

Author probably cobbler it together themselves.