Claude often does things in more detail, and even better, than I would, in the first pass. But I don't understand how anybody stands comments generated by an LLM?

It's seriously the thing that worries (and bothers) me the most. I almost never let unedited LLM comments pass. At a minimum.

Most of the time, I use my own vibe-coded tool to run multiple GitHub-PR-review-style reviews, and send them off to the agent to make the code look and work fine.

It also struggles with doing things the idiomatic way for huge codebases, or sometimes it's just plain wrong about why something works, even if it gets it right.

And I say this despite the fact that I don't really write much code by hand anymore, only the important ones (if even!) or the interesting ones.

Also, don't even get me started on AI-generated READMEs... I use Claude to refine my Markdown or automatically handle dark/light-mode, but I try to write everything myself, because I can't stand what it generates.

I find that the best thing about generating documentation with LLM's is that it gets me angry enough to rewrite it correctly.

"Ugh, no! Why would you say it like that? That's not even how it works! Now, I need to write a full paragraph instead of a short snippet to make sure that no future agents get confused in the same way."

The comments aren't an LLM thing, they're a Claude thing. Codex doesn't write those gross hyper-verbose comments.