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Tactic: Automate Code Comments Using AI

Tactic sort: Awesome Tactic
Type: Software Practice
Category: green-software-practice
Tags: ai  documentation  maintainability 

Title

Automate Code Comments Using AI

Description

Use AI tools inside coding environments to automatically generate code comments. These tools suggest comments based on the structure and logic of the code, ensuring consistent documentation quality and reducing developer effort.

Participant

Developers

Related software artifact

Source code

Context

Software projects where documentation quality and maintainability are important

Software feature

Code documentation

Tactic intent

To improve maintainability and reduce time spent on routine documentation

Target quality attribute

Maintainability

Other related quality attributes

Collaboration; Code quality

Measured impact

Reported by practitioners as the most frequently mentioned sustainability benefit in the study (4 mentions)

Source

Apoorva Nalini Pradeep Kumar, Justus Bogner, Markus Funke, Patricia Lago (2024) Balancing Progress and Responsibility: A Synthesis of Sustainability Trade-Offs of AI-Based Systems (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSA-C63560.2024.00045)


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  • Contact person
  • Patricia Lago (VU Amsterdam)
  •  disc at vu.nl
  •  patricialago.nl

The Archive of Awesome and Dark Tactics (AADT) is an initiative of the Digital Sustainability Center (DiSC). It received funding from the VU Amsterdam Sustainability Institute, and is maintained by the S2 Group of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Initial development of the Archive of Awesome and Dark Tactics by Robin van der Wiel