> Honestly now I find it reassuring to see broken English, typos, lazy markdown formatting, grammatical errors and so on because it is so much better that I am talking to a real human. I think most people using LLMs to write comments literally don't understand this and often just need to be told.
(An ESL here). By all means do write it in the docs, and copy-paste it (or have a bot copy-paste it even) as replies to suspected AI written comments. The barrier is real, an easy "solution" is readily available and is becoming ubiquitous, and the sentiment is very much not obvious. On Sat, Feb 7, 2026 at 12:10 AM Oscar Benjamin via NumPy-Discussion < [email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 6 Feb 2026 at 22:44, Andrew Nelson via NumPy-Discussion > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Something we're also seeing is AI being used to draft comments in PRs. I > think this is understandable as English is not a first language for most > people. However, it also has the effect of raising suspicions (rightly or > wrongly) as to whether the code changes were produced by AI as well. > > I actually think that this is a bigger problem than people using AI to > write code. If all the code is written by AI (and it will be) then > human-to-human communication is the way to build trust. Allowing AIs > to poison that breaks everything. > > Honestly now I find it reassuring to see broken English, typos, lazy > markdown formatting, grammatical errors and so on because it is so > much better that I am talking to a real human. I think most people > using LLMs to write comments literally don't understand this and often > just need to be told. > > -- > Oscar > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/numpy-discussion.python.org > Member address: [email protected] >
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