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by mensetmanusman 1121 days ago
It would be funny if comments are code in the future, as an AI just translates intentions to code that is invisible.
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Hey, that is an interesting way to lens the possible future. There is definitely talk about the "singularity" of programming languages, similar to how you can translate from one language to another using the meaning behind the words. In fact, Copilot seems to be a glimpse into that future. Thank you for the comment!
That's kind of my biggest issue with Co-pilot at the moment... it can turn comments into code, but the amount of effort required to produce the comments is greater than the effort required to write the code.
It's both distressing and amusing to me that so many people think software engineers spend most of their time coding.
In that case, would our web application help to solve your problem? :) Specifically, you write the code, we write the comments for you.
It might be… I would say 95% of code doesn’t need comments. But then you encounter that one complicated function and you go wtf? So I think I would prefer something more targeted. Like a vs code extension that lets you summarize any code snippet.