[roughly]

I’ve found the utility of the coding LLMs gets a lot higher when you’ve got code comments and descriptive variable and function names - the LLM makes better inferences and suggestions. We’ve seen similar on data - properly tagged data and descriptive field names helps the LLM to produce much more useful responses. I’m secretly hoping the spread of these tools will finally lead my fellow developers to comment their code and stop using three character variable names.

[GreedClarifies]

Commenting the code in this manner sounds like a job for an LLM, maybe with human assistance in the short run.

[bbor]

This is my ultimate (short term) AI fear - letting it get into a feedback loop with itself, leading to perverse and incorrect results.

To state my position more clearly: I don’t think an AI could comment code from scratch very well - how would it know all the decisions made, business logic considerations, historical conventions, micro-industry standards, etc?

A good benchmark I was told once was “if a human expert couldn’t do it, an AI probably can’t either”. And commenting code I didn’t write would certainly test the bounds of my abilities