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Comments Considered Harmful

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AI coding agents just love to comment don't they? Ask for a function, and you get a paragraph of commentary as a preface. Mostly harmless, or so I thought until I did a little digging. What happens when the code changes but the comment does not? The title is, obviously, a cheeky riff on Dijkstra's…

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  1. 2026-09-08 07:04 · DEV Community — AI
    Comments Considered Harmful

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