Dev: Writing Good Comments Is a Harder Problem Than Writing Good Code
neil_conway · x · 2026-11-10
Developer Neil Conway shares a counterintuitive observation: writing good comments turns out to be a harder problem than writing good code — a pointed commentary on the gap in AI coding tools, which can generate working code but struggle to produce accurate, explanatory comments.
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