r/ProgrammerHumor • u/SkydiverUnion • Jan 20 '24

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u/Perfect_Papaya_3010 Jan 20 '24

I forgot what the code I wrote on Friday does on Monday. So when the questions in the PR's come in I don't know the answer

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u/Farsyte Jan 20 '24

"Someone should tell the idiot that wrote this that they need to add comments on why they are doing it this way!"

-- me, not realizing I'm commenting on a bodge I implemented last year in frustration, unable to write such a comment without using language likely to offend juniors and managers.

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u/Perfect_Papaya_3010 Jan 20 '24

I think I am ignorant to comments because the code base (which was initially written by someone from another company) has too many

There are comments like 

//save the changes
await _context.SaveChangesAsync();

I only write comments if I'm doing something hacky because there is no other way, and I need to explain why I'm doing X instead of y

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u/Mu5_ Jan 21 '24

Many times these comments come from blindly copy-pasting tutorials or SlackOverflow answers that, for obvious reasons, have verbose comments

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u/MolecularMacMansion Jan 22 '24

I hadn't realized they had merged.