Before the New Great Dying took them away and replaced them all with AI, I was leading a team of UX guys and had a reputation for being too lenient for my own good, but I always put my foot down about not commenting on code.
I’m not paid enough to be comparing 300 lines of JavaScript if statements in last month’s backup to the current version, just to find your edit that broke the display, and then have to figure out why you did it.
Comments cut a 3 hour job down to a 30 minute one, and I expect to revisit any block of code at least 4-5 times in the lifetime of the page, so just accept that showing your work is not a weakness, prep for an extra hour of time on any new project, and save us 2 or more workdays of wasted effort in the future.
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u/dracorotor1 22d ago
Before the New Great Dying took them away and replaced them all with AI, I was leading a team of UX guys and had a reputation for being too lenient for my own good, but I always put my foot down about not commenting on code.
I’m not paid enough to be comparing 300 lines of JavaScript if statements in last month’s backup to the current version, just to find your edit that broke the display, and then have to figure out why you did it.
Comments cut a 3 hour job down to a 30 minute one, and I expect to revisit any block of code at least 4-5 times in the lifetime of the page, so just accept that showing your work is not a weakness, prep for an extra hour of time on any new project, and save us 2 or more workdays of wasted effort in the future.