AI Code Bloat: Developers Complain About Excessive Comments and Low Readability

steipete · x · 2026-08-18

A discussion on Hacker News highlights the downsides of AI coding tools: developers complain about colleagues dumping hundreds of lines of AI-generated docs and verbose comments in PRs, leading to a "post-readability" codebase. Specific issues include Claude adding comments explaining deleted code and Docblocks filled with imaginary architectural arguments.

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