alt Hacker NewsWell the comments tend to be superfluous "whats" (describing the code itself) instead of the more helpful "whys." And they're almost never the most useful "why nots".
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idle_zealot • yesterday at 7:42 PM
> And they're almost never the most useful "why nots".
Really? I find that Claude really likes to write "why nots" in comments when iterating on implementations and fixing bugs, to the extent that the comments grow into spot-logs of overly-specific documentation of what was tried and why it was scrapped.
That's different to my (recent) experience. I get fairly insightful "whys". At least on bugfix commits.