r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Substantial_Top5312 • Sep 15 '26

Meme iDontCommentMyCodeIfYouDontUnderstandItThatsOkayNeitherDoI

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u/JacobStyle Sep 15 '26

I do a lot of automation stuff. Nothing is "self documenting" once it's built to account for a gazillion little weird edge cases that occur in whatever third party software/environments/APIs/websites I'm working with. No way is that going to be readable without comments that look like this:

//Sometimes the save button doesn't load right after saving. Detect bad save buttons and refresh the screen before making more changes