Sourcegraph CEO slams 'delete code comments' advice for AI coding agents
zeeg · x · 2026-10-14
poteto argued for banning most code comments: agents love copying what exists, so a comment explaining a temporary workaround spreads like a weed and turns codebases into hack graveyards; he recommends pstack's /no-comments skill to prune useless comments while keeping essential ones.
Sourcegraph CEO zeeg (Quinn Slack) pushed back: that's bad advice — inject useful intent and context as code comments instead, otherwise you waste tokens letting the agent mess things up (worst case) or inefficiently rediscover answers (best case).
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