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"If the code is confusing, then the code is bad and no amount of comments will ever change that." I've worked on a lot of terrible legacy code in my career and
by jnovek 16d ago
"If the code is confusing, then the code is bad and no amount of comments will ever change that."
I've worked on a lot of terrible legacy code in my career and I'm very thankful for the comments that others have left. This is becoming less necessary now that LLMs can explain a project, but comments have historically been a godsend in bad code.