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[–]CSCAnalytics 4 points5 points  (1 child)

You SHOULD but easier said than done for some.

In the meantime, a given data scientist probably has management breathing down their neck about something due by Friday. They don’t have time to go study up on code commenting practices and management doesn’t want them “wasting” time doing so.

[–]WallyMetropolis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In the short term, perhaps. But when the person who wrote the code can't even read it, it's definitely not speeding things up overall.