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Comment by smokel

5 hours ago

Code typically documents the "what" and "how", not the "why".

Why something exists, and how it connects to the outside world may be documented in comments, but more often than not it isn't.

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arcanemachiner  5 hours ago

And agents are pretty bad at inferring when to do, and often fall back to verbose clutterin the comments.

haukebri  5 hours ago

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