Comment by zozbot234
9 days ago
In my experience, LLM-added comments are too silly and verbose. It's going to pollute its own context with nonsense and its already limited ability to make sense of things will collapse. LLMs have plenty of random knowledge which is occasionally helpful, but they're nowhere near the standard of proper literacy of even an ordinary skilled coder, let alone Dr. Knuth who defined literate programming in the first place.
The output of an LLM is a reflection of the input and instructions. If you have silly and verbose comments, then consider improving your prompt.
Almost nothing in a Claude Code session has to do with "your prompt", it works for an hour afterwards and mostly talks to itself. I've noticed if you give it small corrections it will leave nonsensical comments referring to your small correction as if it's something everyone knows.
It has everything to do with your prompt and why Claude Code has a plan mode: because the quality of your planning, prompting, and inputs significantly affects the output.
Your assertion, then, is that even a 1 sentence prompt is as good as a 5 section markdown spec with detailed coding style guidance and feature, by feature specification. This is simply not true; the detailed spec and guidance will always outperform the 1 sentence prompt.
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"then consider improving all your training data and reinforcement feedback"
Fixed that for you.
The input is sooo much more than your prompt, that's kind of the point.