Your code comments are agent bait: delete most of them, dev argues
weswinder · x · 2026-10-14
Developer weswinder argues that in the age of AI agents, code comments become "agent bait": agents copy every stale workaround note verbatim, meaning you're paying tokens to teach the model outdated information. His advice: delete most of them and your codebase will be better off.
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