Note on I Saw Someone Quip (On Twitter, I Think) Many Years Ago Something Like: via ycombinator.com
A junior engineer writes comments that explain what the code does. A mid-level engineer writes comments that explain why the code does what it does. A senior engineer writes comments that explain why the code isn’t written in another way.
Comments also explain context to automated developers (e.g. LLM agents) interacting with the code.
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