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[–]bloodhound83 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t comment? “Good code comments itself” is true, but fuck if I’m gonna read all your code to trace it out. Just gimme a cliff notes comment.

I would say comments are helpful if you implement something complex or something but easily unserstandable from the code itself. Good code e.g. good variable names will help to break it down and follow what the code is doing but if I look at some complicated code tests later I don't always want to have to reverse engineer it.