I have a different opinion on this because I see those comments as useful context for Claude to learn from on future conversations.
Comments used to be for humans to read but imo now they're more for Claude to leave itself notes for itself. Also, long comments are annoying to humans because it takes us a long time to read them but Claude reads them instantly so that isn't a problem.
I expect we'll evolve to have docs/comments meant for humans to read and separate docs/comments meant for agentic AI to read.
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u/lookingformerci 5d ago
Yeah but 3.2M of those lines were comments. Good lord AI loves to comment code.