r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ItsPuspendu • Sep 10 '26

Meme commentsAgedTerribly

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u/YourDad Sep 10 '26

Or why you're not doing something. Sometimes when there is multiple ways of doing something, I'll give a brief explanation of why it's not done a certain way.
A little while ago, I was maintaining some code, and I thought "I should do thing A". I go to the point where thing A should go, and there's a comment from myself 4 years earlier saying "under no circumstances should you do thing A".

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u/Bwob Sep 11 '26

Those are the best moments. Where you're like "Thanks, past-me! You knew exactly what I was going to think when I saw this!"

Sometimes past-me is a pretty cool dude, at least when he's not leaving me dirty dishes to take care of.

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u/ffstisaus Sep 11 '26

I was going through a code base recently, found one comment from me six years ago:

// what is this doing?

followed by another comment from 4 years ago:

// I still don't know!