It was already a well-known review point way before LLM's. Every book about code cleanliness has some point about "write WHY not WHAT when commenting code". It'

It was already a well-known review point way before LLM's. Every book about code cleanliness has some point about "write WHY not WHAT when commenting code". It's a point everyone makes, because it's such an ubiquitous thing. Of course the standard bad example is // add 1 to a a++; While an IMHO good example would be when normally you wouldn't expect this addition, so you'd comment // the flipDinkleWooptie method doesn't add one in this case // because there is no wooptie register, so we manually // add one here. a++;