[palisade]

LLM agents don't know how to shut up and always think they're right about everything. They also lack the ability to be brief. Sometimes things can be solved with a single character or line, but no they write a full page. And, they write paragraphs of comments for even the most minuscule of changes.

They talk at you, are overbearing and arrogant.

[energy123]

I expect a lot of the things people don't like ("output too long, too many comments in code") are side effects of making the LLM good in other areas.

Long output correlates with less laziness when writing code, and higher performance on benchmarks due to the monotone relationship between number of output tokens and scores. Comment spam correlates with better performance because it's locally-specific reasoning it can attend on when writing the next line of code, leading to reduced errors.

[tobyhinloopen]

Just add to the prompt not to include comments and to talk less.

I have a prompt document that includes a complete summary of the Clean Code book, which includes the rules about comments.

You do have to remind it occasionally.

[dawnerd]

I was trying out sonnet 4 yesterday and it spent 15 minutes changing testing changing etc just to get one config item changed. It ended up changing 40 files for no reason. Also kept trying to open a debugger that didn’t exist and load a webpage that requires auth.

They’re far from perfect that’s for sure.

[SV_BubbleTime]

I don’t think anyone seriously is claiming perfect. The thing is all of AI is moving 5 times faster than any disrupting tech before it.

We went from proof reading single emails to researching agentic coding in a year.

It should have been five.