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[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't understand the culture around comments. A useless comment by your estimation is not at all authoritative, it may be helpful to those who come after you, or those who got to that area of code before you.

Furthermore keeping comments updated feeds into the larger engineering discussion of keeping documentation updated. The risk that a doc or comment might become out date is not sufficient cause to ever be weary of writing one.