I Deleted 168,000 Lines of Comments. My AI Agent Didn't Notice
epeicher · hn · 2026-10-15
- The author ran an extreme experiment: removing 168,000 lines of comments from a codebase and watching how their AI coding agent responded.
- The agent didn't notice at all, and its behavior stayed the same — suggesting the workflow barely relies on human-written comments.
- The piece reflects on the value of comments in the AI era: explanatory text written for human readers may be becoming dead weight in agent-driven development. Full blog post at the link.
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