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by diagraphic 375 days ago
"convert length string into an integer" is a machine generated comment?

I've been writing code for 15+ years, this made me laugh my ass off. Comments are great, I don't read comments but I write them for others, especially for open source code. Atoi may be something you and I and a whole bunch of others know but people who don't it's a fine comment. Relax! :)
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imiric 375 days ago
That comment is a strong sign that this was AI-generated. LLMs have the tendency to leave superfluous comments even when the code is self-explanatory. In this case, strconv is a well-known stdlib package, and anyone reading this in their IDE would get the documentation for what it does. In fact, all of the comments in this function and in most of the file are redundant, and I would point this out in a code review.

But, of course, this was vibe coded, so it's unlikely a human actually reviewed it.

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rvnx 375 days ago
In the tests it more obvious:

You can see here for example: https://github.com/piyushgupta53/go-torrent-client/commit/61...

and some strings coming from crawled resources like: lengthi12345e4 but slightly different tokens (like 25 instead of 35 etc).

Gemini Pro 2.5 even gave me the prompt:

> If you asked me, "Generate Go unit tests for a Bencode decoder function called Decode that takes an io.Reader and returns an interface{} and an error. Cover strings, integers, lists, and dictionaries, including common error cases and nested structures" the output I would strive to produce would look very much like the code you've shown.

> It's a good example of well-written Go tests, and that's the kind of pattern I've learned to recognize and replicate.

and a lot actually matches when you ask from a fresh conversation.

So most likely Cursor + Gemini 2.5 Pro, but I cannot blame, I spend 100% of my time with Claude, and I take ownership of the code.

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alexpadula 375 days ago
"TODO: We'll develop the actual functionality as we develop each component" lool

It's hard to say honestly. I don't call any project AI as it's just too hard to tell. I write lots of comments in my code too so it's hard to call anything AI without a person stating they used it.

Claude is decent for sure, but I always say with AI, learn the math before jumping to a calculator.

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