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introducing 𝚜𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 ✋ a wholly overengineered agent hook to remove superfluous code comments, powered by tree-sitter github.com/hasparus/sil...

Piotr Monwid-Olechnowicz

@haspar.us

1 June

u can also use it as a CLI outside of agents, on CI or during dev silence strip file⁠.rs silence strip src -r

Piotr Monwid-Olechnowicz

@haspar.us

1 June

i'm kinda surprised I didn't find anything reliable, @⁠code-yeongyu/comment-checker from oh-my-opencode is nice, but it warns instead of modifying files i don't wanna tell the AI to remove the ad-libs, just delete them

Piotr Monwid-Olechnowicz

@haspar.us

even the newest models perform so much HYPEMANNERY I ask to fix a bug, the agent leaves a "fixed a bug here, yay me" comment. there's just zero respect for the fourth wall, the conversation about the process leaks to the medium. and then we're all reading that REPEATEDLY.

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Piotr Monwid-Olechnowicz

@haspar.us

1 June

You might notice a similar thing when you ask AI for some specific design style, let's say brutalism, and then it also makes the text on the page *about brutalism* just so chatty, can't stop itself

Piotr Monwid-Olechnowicz

@haspar.us

1 June

I find slop-comments annoying bcs the codebase doesn't require this information zooming out from code doesn't help: I noticed AI gets confused about outdated comments or spends tokens maintaining them seems like almost all advice we gave to new devs makes sense for AI