- cross-posted to:
- programmer_humor@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- programmer_humor@programming.dev
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Github overview of a pull request for the file AGENTS.md.
Comments regarding line “# Repository Guidelines” in the file:
zanieb: “What’s the point of this title? Seems like wasted tokens?”
zanieb: “(certainly inconsequential in the big scheme, but I don’t see it adding value)”
charliemarsh: “It ensures that the agent does a good job.”
If the agent can’t tell a contextual comment from an actionable code line, then it is indeed a wasted token. Not because of the header, but because of the “AI” being a useless POS.
Which, to be fair, is the case in pretty much all scenarios.
Wasn’t a comment, it was a header in a markdown prompt for ai agents to slurp into their context.