Agent writes a script to remove slop comments — the script itself has 10+ lines of them
shadcn · x · 2026-10-30
shadcn shared an ironic fail: he used an AI agent to help create a lint rule and a script to detect and remove "slop comments" (meaningless AI-generated comments). But the agent's own check-comment.mjs script came back with 10+ lines of slop comments itself.
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