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AI's True Calling: From Coder to Commenter
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AI's True Calling: From Coder to Commenter

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This meme uses the popular two-panel 'Drake Hotline Bling' format to comment on the utility of AI in software development. In the top panel, Drake, wearing an orange puffer jacket, holds up a hand in a gesture of rejection. The text next to him reads, 'AI that writes code from comments.' In the bottom panel, Drake points approvingly, with a satisfied smile. The corresponding text is, 'AI that writes comments from code.' The joke highlights a common sentiment among experienced developers: while AI generating entire code blocks from simple comments is often met with skepticism due to potential quality and accuracy issues, an AI that can accurately generate documentation and comments from existing complex code is seen as a highly valuable and practical tool. It's a preference for AI as a smart assistant that handles tedious tasks, rather than an autonomous agent that replaces the core logic and problem-solving work of a developer

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The Turing test for a dev tool AI is not whether it can write code from comments, but whether it can write a comment for a 10-year-old legacy function without just saying '// TODO: refactor this mess'
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    The Turing test for a dev tool AI is not whether it can write code from comments, but whether it can write a comment for a 10-year-old legacy function without just saying '// TODO: refactor this mess'

  2. Anonymous

    AI that writes code from comments? Cute. I’ll take the model that reads our 17-year-old monolith and finally explains why line 8,437 is “// DO NOT DELETE - breaks everything.”

  3. Anonymous

    After 20 years in the industry, I've finally found the holy grail: an AI that can reverse-engineer the business logic from that 10,000-line legacy method and explain why Dave from 2008 thought a triple-nested ternary operator inside a switch statement was 'elegant.' Now if only it could explain why we're still maintaining his 'temporary' workaround

  4. Anonymous

    Senior engineers know the real value proposition: AI that writes code from comments is just expensive rubber duck debugging with extra steps, but AI that generates documentation from your uncommented 3AM refactoring spree? That's the hero we actually need - because let's be honest, that TODO comment from 2019 isn't getting expanded into proper docs on its own, and your future self (or the poor soul inheriting your codebase) will thank you when the AI explains why you chose that particular O(n²) algorithm at 4AM

  5. Anonymous

    Give me the LLM that updates comments after every refactor - if the AST diff and the comment diff disagree, block the merge

  6. Anonymous

    AI nails docstrings on your tech debt so the next architect doesn't audit your sins - instead of hallucinating the debt itself

  7. Anonymous

    Skip the model that writes code from comments - give me the one that reads 200k lines of legacy and produces the missing ADR: “We rebuilt RPC on Kafka to avoid 2PC.”

  8. @Nsky24 4y

    😅😅💯💯💯

    1. @RiedleroD 4y

      there's so little women who show their faces around here that I thought for a second you were another thot bot 😅 In any case, welcome to dev_meme with this not at all weird message.

      1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 4y

        Stalker /s

      2. @anyarchy 4y

        I thought the same at the beginning...

      3. @Nsky24 4y

        Hah😅😅 thanx:)

      4. @the_lonely_astronaut 4y

        simp moment

  9. @RiedleroD 4y

    👈😀👈

    1. @pavloalpha 4y

      Ah, ya ya, sieg heil der untermensch

      1. @RiedleroD 4y

        translation: Sieg Heil (hitler's greeting) the subhuman

        1. @pavloalpha 4y

          Yeah I knew it

  10. @QutePoet 4y

    Tell me more about AI that writes code from comments please. I know about one that's still in dev — Codex GAN.

    1. @slnt_opp 4y

      GitHub Copilot

      1. @mxkrsv 4y

        It's AI that helps to wash off copyleft licenses from code

      2. @QutePoet 4y

        Thanks!

    2. @a_desant 4y

      Kite

      1. @QutePoet 4y

        Thank you!

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